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You should either clarify that you are talking about unpaid leave, or you should read your own articles. Maternity leave is guaranteed for most employees under

You should either clarify that you are talking about unpaid leave, or you should read your own articles. Maternity leave is guaranteed for most employees under FMLA. >They can find 100 ways to fire you in ways that don't break the letter of the law if you ask for something the law supposedly guarantees. That can be actionable too. If you are pregnant and they fire you, they are opening themselves up to so much liability it outweighs the few dollars they might save.

gameswithgo 8y ago
normal people don't have the time or knowledge to begin those kinds of proceedings.
- coldtea 8y ago
  Or the money to see them through... not to mention in smaller cities they can also be blacklisted (illegal or not, happens all the time to those asking for their rights, suing employees, looking to unionize, etc).
coldtea 8y ago
>Maternity leave is guaranteed for most employees under FMLA. You'd be surprised. The FMLA only mandates for unpaid leave. That's unlike most western european countries. And even that's under BS conditions and subject to employer power plays as opposed to totally normal and acceptable (and paid). https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/06/what-family-leave/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/06/what-family-lea... https://newfoodeconomy.org/giving-kitchen-staplehouse/ https://newfoodeconomy.org/giving-kitchen-staplehouse/ https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/05/working-mothers-moms-gender-workplace-children/ https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/05/working-mothers-mo... >That can be actionable too. If you are pregnant and they fire you, they are opening themselves up to so much liability it outweighs the few dollars they might save. Maternity leave is not just for pregmant people. What about after birth? Besides, there are lots of ways to make it so it's not actionable.

gameswithgo 8y ago

normal people don't have the time or knowledge to begin those kinds of proceedings.

coldtea 8y ago
Or the money to see them through... not to mention in smaller cities they can also be blacklisted (illegal or not, happens all the time to those asking for their rights, suing employees, looking to unionize, etc).

coldtea 8y ago

>Maternity leave is guaranteed for most employees under FMLA. You'd be surprised. The FMLA only mandates for unpaid leave. That's unlike most western european countries. And even that's under BS conditions and subject to employer power plays as opposed to totally normal and acceptable (and paid). https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/06/what-family-leave/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/06/what-family-lea... https://newfoodeconomy.org/giving-kitchen-staplehouse/ https://newfoodeconomy.org/giving-kitchen-staplehouse/ https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/05/working-mothers-moms-gender-workplace-children/ https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/05/working-mothers-mo... >That can be actionable too. If you are pregnant and they fire you, they are opening themselves up to so much liability it outweighs the few dollars they might save. Maternity leave is not just for pregmant people. What about after birth? Besides, there are lots of ways to make it so it's not actionable.