beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoLawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalizationwww.abetterbalance.orgexternal-linkmessage-square85linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkLawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalizationwww.abetterbalance.orgbeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square85linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squarechaitae3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoThis reddit-originated post is being reposted every so often, and every time I remind people that firing pregnant women is a criminal offence in most European countries and no sane oppressor entrepreneur would do it.
minus-squareTeaWithDani@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoAmazon left Quebec after a warehouse unionized. Not legal either, Walmart got successfully sued over something similar in the past. They still did it. On the plus side, Amazon left.
minus-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoIt’s not legal in the U.S. either. The issue is that the EEOC is essentially useless.
This reddit-originated post is being reposted every so often, and every time I remind people that firing pregnant women is a criminal offence in most European countries and no sane
oppressorentrepreneur would do it.Amazon left Quebec after a warehouse unionized. Not legal either, Walmart got successfully sued over something similar in the past. They still did it.
On the plus side, Amazon left.
It’s not legal in the U.S. either.
The issue is that the EEOC is essentially useless.