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• Pregnant Women? Still Discriminated Against

  It's 2008. In many ways, the American workplace has become a far more progressive place than it ever has been. Except, perhaps, when it comes to treatment of pregnant women.  This fascinating piece on Time.com reports that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has seen a 65 percent increase in complaints about discrimination against pregnant women in the workplace between 1992 and 2007. The number of claims hit a record of 5,597 last year, all from women who believe they are being treated differently because they have babies in their bellies. Those claims still only account for a fraction of the EEOC's total complaints, but that number is still much higher than I would have imagined. The National Partnership for Women and Families studied some of the stats and found that the industries that generated the most concern were retail, services, finance, real estate and insurance. (Award for most egregious treatment of women-with-child? A maternity store that refused to hire pregnant employees. Nice. What's next? Book stores that won't consider literate applicants?) Read More... Posted Nov 03 2008, 08:28 AM by Jen Chaney with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, employment, working moms, time, working while pregnant, National Partnership for Women and Families, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, labor issues, discrimination against pregnant women

• What Exactly Is the "Disney Look"?

  A guy in South Florida is suing Disney World for employment discrimination. The trumpet performance junior at the University of South Florida decided to take Mr. Mouse and Co. to court after he applied for a trumpet player position and was told by a supervisor that while he was totally qualified for the job, he did not have the "Disney look" and wouldn't be hired. Which has to make you wonder--what exactly is the Disney look?  Well, I can tell you what it isn't, according to the hiring guy... Read More... Posted Jun 20 2008, 05:01 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: law, Disney World, florida, job, employment, discrimination, mickey mouse, prejudice, hiring, court, legal, american, sikh, suing

• Pregnancy Discrimination Complaints On the Rise

  The Wall Street Journal reports that pregnancy-bias job complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were up by 14 percent this year, and up by 40 percent from a decade ago. Employers aren't allowed to discriminate against the with child in hiring, firing, and lay-offs--which doesn't mean they can't do all those things to you, it just means they can't treat you worse than men. So essentially you have to prove that the actions were motivated by the fact that you were pregnant, which isn't always easy. While many women also assume... Read More... Posted Mar 29 2008, 09:31 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, wall street journal, employment, discrimination, activism, hiring, maternity leave, jobs, equality, firing, lay-offs, complaints, employers

• UK Parents Claim They're Second Class Drones on Return to Work

  It's hard out there for a pimp. But apparently, it's even harder for parents who return to work after taking time off to be with their children. A survey by UK Web site mother@work reports that only 1 out of 10 parents who returned to work did so because they loved their job; most went back purely for financial reasons. Additionally, 7% of parents claim that they were passed over for promotions because of their brood, while a full 10% said that they could feel the cold, icy stares of their childless colleagues piercing them to the marrow. I have to wonder how representative those digits are of American parents, though. Most of the moms and dads I know who returned to work after doign the stay-at-home gig did so because they felt something was missing in their lives. Most of them, in other words, love to work. My own wife is a former stay at home mom turned work at home mom, who's written eloquently about her reasons for going back to the grind. Let's hear from the peanut gallery. (And I mean that in the most affectionate way possible.) If you used to stay home with the kids, why did you repatriate? Did you miss working? Or was it strictly a matter of the dinero?   Posted Feb 01 2007, 10:34 AM by thezeroboss with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Britain, work, america, job, work at home moms, employment, stay at home moms, working