It was an article about what happened to the author with her maternity leave. The relevance is that if you screw with maternity leave then you make your work e

It was an article about what happened to the author with her maternity leave. The relevance is that if you screw with maternity leave then you make your work environment toxic for anyone that gets pregnant, which only affects your female employees, and then usually well before they get anywhere near upper management. For a general retailer, this is not a good plan.