15 episodes
Pregnant then Screwed, American Style Jack Tuckner
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4.3 • 6 Ratings
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Women face numerous sex-based challenges unique to working while female; especially when pregnant. This podcast will explore the many facets of this relentless form of sex discrimination and offer empowering guidance and tips for protecting yourself, your job and your income at a time in your life when you can't afford to get fired or quit.
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We're back in the saddle weekly on Friday's at 9 am!
Deborah O'Rell and I (and guests in the women's rights and health space) will be recording this podcast again on Fridays at 9 am.
We'll be chatting and riffing about women's workplace rights in terms of pregnancy protections, what to do about your perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms if they're interfering with your performance, how to advocate to be paid what your worth, and what to do when you're being sexualized at work.
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Are they messing with you at work just because you’re pregnant?
Let me tell you a story about a current pregnant client who’s enduring wild discriminatory hostility just because she’s with child. I discuss what her (and your) rights are under the pregnancy protective federal and state statutes.
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Repetition is the Mother of Skill. So it Bears Repeating! If You're an EXPECTANT MOTHER, You are Entitled TO FLEXIBILITY AND WORKPLACE ACCOMMODATIONS!
Under federal and most state and city anti-discrimination laws, almost ALL employers are required to show compassion and flexibility* to its pregnant employees during their pregnancies, after their babies are born, and even after they return to work and require accommodations for lactation and breast feeding purposes.
Any differential or hostile workplace treatment because of pregnancy is illegal sex, gender, and pregnancy discrimination and often disability discrimination, too.
Document in writing any requests for flexibility and pregnancy-related accommodations, as well as complaints about discriminatory treatment you're experiencing due to your pregnancy, related medical conditions, and your need for OB/Gyn appointments and testing, and requests for temporary light duty.
Step up and fight for your right to be equal! And don't quit your job due to discrimination, as that's like throwing out the baby with the bath water! 🙄🤓
Put the company on notice about your requests and complaints, and let them investigate and do the right thing to hook you up, as they're required to do.
If your company treats you worse, or refuses to implement a reasonable request for flexibility of your pregnancy, then you can chat with an employment lawyer.
*Compassion and flexibility is better known in legal parlance as reasonable accommodations of the natural limitations of pregnancy, or its related medical issues.
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Failure to Promote At Work Due To Pregnancy Discrimination--Is It Happening To You and What You Can and Should Do to Hold Your Employer Accountable
If you're treated differently in the workplace because of pregnancy throughout your gestational cycle, including through maternity leave and your return to work, it's illegal sex, gender, pregnancy and often disability discrimination. This sex-based differential treatment includes failure to promote because of pregnancy.
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Lactation, Breastfeeding and Expressing Breast Milk in the Workplace.
YES! You ARE entitled to breastfeed your baby and/or pump breast milk in the workplace postpartum, for one year after childbirth under federal law and for three years after childbirth under New York and Connecticut laws, and ALL 50 states have their own laws on breastfeeding and expressing milk at work.
Listen to a brief summary of your lactation rights presented by Jack Bryant Tuckner, Esq., Women's Rights in the Workplace lawyer based in New York.
Find your particular state law on postpartum breastfeeding and milk pumping at work at this link.
Jack Tuckner can be reached for questions at @jacktuckner on Twitter and Jack Tuckner on LinkedIn and Facebook. Email jtuckner@womensrightsny.com
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Yes, you are entitled to maternity leave.
There are a mix of confusing federal and state laws governing maternity leave, but the bottom line? YOU ARE ENTITLED TO MATERNITY LEAVE.
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Customer Reviews
Crap Whine Fest
This chick is just whining about having to work. It’s 2020, please point me to any standing policy in the modern business world that highlights your unfounded claims of discrimination. Can’t believe Apple publishes this crap.