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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
You do realize that becoming pregnant is not a part of equal opportunity rights, right?
If an employer feels that you will, at some point, not be able to maintain contribution to his/her company, you are in completely legal grounds to be fired. Regardless of circumstance.
If you're LUCKY, you might keep the job.
Just because guys can't get pregnant doesn't mean it's unfair treatment. Businesses look out for their business. Maintaining a proper work force is part of their obligation to their own business. Just because you become pregnant does not mean they have to suffer for it.
Companies don't owe anything to their employees except pay and whatever else is in their agreement. Male OR female.
If you're making a case about the fact that males don't get fired for becoming pregnant and unable to work, then you're barking up the wrong tree.
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Incorrect, there are equal opportunity laws in place that prevent employers from firing women when they get pregnant. It is not up to the business.
There are also laws which also require employers to give the woman a certain amount of paid maternity leave when the baby arrives. These laws are concrete. The issue is that many businesses sneakily get around these laws.
Being pregnant doesn't make you disabled. Many women can still work their job for the term of their pregnancy.
It's just the same as a certain type of business firing a male because he's not an attractive young female and he's not going to bring as much business as an attractive woman would. You can't fire people over things like this, it would be discrimination. Unless it is part of a specific contract signed or something, it is not supposed to happen. There are laws in place to protect this.
Firing a women because she has ovaries and may get pregnant is gender discrimination.