Tuesday, June 9, 2009

30,000 Pregnant Women a Year Lose Their Jobs

Rights for women seem to be getting further and further away as a recent report has revealed that there has been a sharp rise in the number of women who have lost their jobs through maternity leave or through pregnancy.

Leading campaign group have claimed that the sharp increase is a result of employers not wanting to foot their members of staff maternity costs and as a result mothers and expectant mothers are losing their job and lively hood.
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5 comments:

  1. DJJune 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM

    Compare our system with most European and Scandinavian countries regarding pregnancy and work.  It's so embarrasing and obscene.

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  2. vzaJune 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM

    I think the article is about the UK.

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  3. vJune 9, 2009 at 5:41 PM

    <h4 class="BlogPostHeader">Planned Change to UK Maternity Leave Give More Time to Fathers</h4>

    "U.S. moms looking at 6 weeks of unpaid maternity leave will have to pinch themselves when they read about the U.K.'s proposed changes to their current 9-month, partly paid government guaranteed maternity leave.  After complaints that such a long maternity leave shortchanges fathers and potentially makes women of childbearing age less appealing to employers, while the small percentage of pay made it difficult for families with low incomes to take the leave, some changes have been proposed.
    The new plan would give mothers 28 weeks of leave at 90% of their pay before the leave.  It would retain the current 2-week leave for fathers, but add another 4 months, also at 90% pay.  Then another 4 months of parental leave would be available for either parent to take up to the child's fifth birthday."
     
    http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/30/planned-change-to-uk-maternity-leave-give-more-time-to-fathers.aspx

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  4. vJune 9, 2009 at 7:37 PM

    There is a comment that DJ made on my site with this link to a study, it is very disturbing -
     
    HOW DID A 100,000,000 WOMEN DISAPPEAR?
     
    http://www.thestar.com/Insight/article/645832

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  5. thankgodimatheistJune 9, 2009 at 7:46 PM

    This is extremely disturbing. I'll post it later.

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