Pregnancy and gender discrimination can happen rampantly in today’s work world even if you work from home. Working from home doesn’t mean you can’t be discriminated against. Raleigh, North Carolina gender discrimination attorney Kathryn Abernethy talks about what can most likely can happen to new moms in the workplace. This is part of a recurring employment law series that attorney Abernethy has done to help North Carolina residents understand their rights in their state. You can watch her video below, or read the provided transcription!
Transcript: Can I Suffer From Gender Discrimination If My Company Does Not Let Me Work From Home Post Childbirth?
The other category that just gets killed in employment decisions is women with young children at home.
There is just an implicit assumption, and you see it in pregnancy discrimination cases. You see it in sex discrimination cases, what I would call sex plus cases.
You know, women who are single moms and maybe have small children at home. Those women get shellacked. I would almost say it’s a pretextual sort of thing.
The way companies are really coming down on moms right now about going back to the office and not letting them work from home is really suspect.
I mean when you start looking at some of these companies, their work from home policies are really lax when it comes to men who need to work from home two days a week.
But God forbid you’re a single mom and you need to work from home a day or two a week.
I mean, there are companies that will just get rid of you without a second thought over that if you’re female and you’ve got small kids.
