pregnancy discrimination
Every day presents different employment law issues, including pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. Today, a woman came to my office. She had worked for a call center for a short period of time. When she was hired, she was newly pregnant, and didn’t disclose it because she wasn’t showing and feared nobody would hire her. Three months […]
An interesting issue came up today. A potential client sent me the following email: “I had my job threatened on several occasions, I have had raises held back due to taking leave for having a baby. I was threatened to be fired if I got pregnant (which I was pregnant at the time and had to take […]
While pregnancy is typically a joyous time of great anticipation, for many women, it can also bring unfair discrimination in the workplace. Adverse employment actions taken simply because you are pregnant should not be taken lightly, federal and state laws afford expectant mothers a significant amount of protection with which you should become familiar. Federal […]