What Rights Pregnant Freelancers Have
If you’re pregnant, freelancing might be your only income or at the very least, your primary income.
Paid maternity leave
It’s Time For Mandated Maternity and Paternity Leave
Ask any parent and they’ll tell you that having a child changes everything. It shifts your priorities. It changes the way you look at life, the world, and your place in it. Unfortunately, though, not all employers are willing to accommodate the many profound transformations that occur when an employee becomes a parent — and …
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Why Workers Like Victoria Need The PRO Act Now
Those bundles of joy cost bundles of money, so Victoria Whipple, a quality control worker at Kumho Tire in Macon, Ga., had been working overtime to get ready for her new arrival. She also got involved in union organizing at the plant, and management decided to teach her a lesson. It didn’t matter that Victoria …
Far-right effort to smear Elizabeth Warren flops. Turns out pregnancy discrimination is a thing
Elizabeth Warren and the entire history of women’s employment in the 1970s are swatting away a claim by a far-right website disputing Warren’s story of losing her first teaching job because she was visibly pregnant at the end of her first year. The Free Beacon found documents claiming that Warren was offered a second-year teaching contract but …
A Pregnant Target
Those bundles of joy cost bundles of money, so Victoria Whipple, a quality control worker at Kumho Tire in Macon, Georgia, had been working overtime to get ready for her new arrival. She also got involved in union organizing at the plant, and management decided to teach her a lesson. It didn’t matter that Victoria …
Can A Website Give Mothers A Leg Up In The Workplace?
At two months pregnant and the mom of a one-year-old, Georgene Huang found herself looking for a job after a management shakeup at her employer, Dow Jones. She knew that she’d be needing to take maternity leave shortly after starting any new position and would also need a work culture that would support her leaving …
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The Real War on Families: Why the U.S. Needs Paid Leave Now
Investigation reveals the devastating effects of the lack of paid family leave: Our data show nearly 1 in 4 employed mothers return to work within two weeks of childbirth. Leigh Benrahou began laying plans to have a second child almost as soon as she had her first, a daughter named Johara, in 2011. Benrahou, 32, …
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