Was it wrong of me not to tell my employers I was pregnant?
One expectant-mum didn’t tell her employer she was pregnant when they offered her a role. She explained that she wanted to avoid being discriminated against. It was also very early in her pregnancy so she felt it was too soon to disclose it. But was she wrong? She explained to Reddit that her family’s reaction […]
4 years ago
Musings: How I feel about a company that tells parents of young children they ‘need not apply’
I couldn’t believe what I was reading. A little while ago I was browsing some articles when I came across a piece about a company that coming under fire for a job that they recently posted to Indeed. The oil company caused outrage and controversy with one job specification in particular… parents need not apply. […]
5 years ago
UK mum refused 5pm finish at work so that she could collect daughter wins £185,000
“It’s 2021, not 1971.” A mum who was refused her request to work shorter hours in order to pick her daughter up from nursery has won £185,000 in court. Alice Thompson ended up resigning from her role as an estate agent after her employer turned down her request to work a four-day week and finish […]
5 years ago
Discrimination At Work For Being Pregnant? You Better Believe It
For millennia, women have been having babies, but it seems to be a concept that some workplaces still have trouble understanding… Although it is, of course, illegal to discriminate against an employee because she is pregnant, unfortunately, it still happens. A recently published UK report shows that three-quarters of women who are pregnant or returning […]
11 years ago