COLUMBUS: Pregnant women working for small companies shouldn't start planning to take a 12-week leave of absence yet.
Yes, the Ohio Civil Rights Commission flexed its muscle last week and used a 1977 law against sexual discrimination to order companies to provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave to pregnant workers.
But the real showdown on this issue is still coming, probably in early December, and it has all the elements of a political and ideological melee.
Democrats against Republicans, companies squaring off with the workers, the small business owners taking on the moms-in-waiting.
The battle also will once again illustrate the subtle tug-of-war that continues to be waged between the Democrats in Gov. Ted Strickland's administration and the Republican-controlled state legislature.
And it will also demonstrate once again that rules and laws are flexible, to be bent when convenient, and that the only truth in politics is that power is in the hand of the beholder.
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