What Constitutes Pregnancy Discrimination in the Workplace?
I have a lot of clients who have situations where they inform their employer that they're pregnant and then are immediately terminated. It doesn't have to be that obvious. A lot of times an employer won't take the immediate action of terminating an employee, but they'll do other things. Like, for example, reducing their hours right away. Some of the times those productions can be dramatic. They might change their performance reviews. For example, an employee who's an excellent employee had incredible performance reviews is all of a sudden being met with negative performance reviews, and negative paper trail to ultimately end up terminating them. Or they're just not treated the same way, they come back to an employer, and they're not held in the same type of regard. That can go a hand-in-hand with something called familial discrimination or caregiver discrimination, where the employer feels that because an employee now has a child, they're no longer able to perform their duties to same degree. Our goal is to help women throughout New York, and New Jersey battle the pervasive pregnancy discrimination that's occurring. I take pride in being able to help clients who come to us.
By
Phillips & Associates, PLLC
