Pregnancy discrimination is widespread in corporate America. Some employers deny expecting mothers raises, others fire them before they can take maternity leave. For women who work in physically demanding jobs, discrimination often comes with higher stakeshttps://nyti.ms/2CY1F50
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If you are a Verizon customer on the East Coast, odds are good that your cellphone arrived by way of the XPO Logistics warehouse in Tennessee. Inside the warehouse, hundreds of workers, many of them women, lift boxes weighing up to 45 pounds, filled with iPhones and other gadgetspic.twitter.com/rgFFfVmE14
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After Ceeadria Walker learned she was pregnant, she said she gave her XPO supervisor a doctor’s note saying she should not lift more than 15 pounds. She said she asked to be assigned to an area with lighter items. https://nyti.ms/2CY1F50 pic.twitter.com/qFN9mjr4Ii
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Ceeadria Walker said her supervisor regularly sent her to a conveyor belt line where she had to lift 45-pound boxes. She miscarried the day after spending her shift handling those heavier boxes. https://nyti.ms/2CY1F50 pic.twitter.com/zmxPQawpb9
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Ceeadria Walker is not alone. 5 other women at the warehouse have also had miscarriages. In 2014, Erica Hayes, a worker who was in the second trimester of her first pregnancy, bled through her jeans at the end of her shift. She had lost her pregnancy. http://nyti.ms/2CY1F50 pic.twitter.com/0u0q6SuwNY
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The only federal law protecting expecting mothers is the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. It says a company only has to accommodate pregnant women’s requests if it is already doing so for other employees who are “similar in their ability or inability to work” http://nyti.ms/2CY1F50 pic.twitter.com/9YtGjJTQ8l
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In every congressional session since 2012, a group of lawmakers has introduced a bill for pregnant workers that would require employers to accommodate those whose health depends on it. The legislation has never had a hearing.http://nyti.ms/2CY1F50
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Women are equal citizens who deserve equal rights.
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Exactly... and all citizens who are responsible for carrying humans inside of them for 9 months should be protected in the work place.
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I asked who I would send my paper for leave to (just started job four weeks) was fired the next day. I went into labor within one week and I was early. However, I couldn't sue NYS has a Hire at will, fire at will policy!
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The ENTIRE civilized world is laughing at what the United States calls a “health system”
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Don’t bother telling the GOP.
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What is the difference between these cases and abortion?
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Absolutely Shocking in present day
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Why should the bosses give a damn? By the time the prospective spawn are old enough to work, they'll be retired, employed elsewhere, … … or dead (like billions of others) from that Chinese hoax. Meanwhile, growing them up is just another goddamn tax bite.
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What?
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Equal and special and equal and special
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This is NOT good!
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