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Would Your Job Fire You For Having A Miscarriage?

Well this is uplifting: a female lawyer was laid off by the big law firm Paul Hastings days after suffering a miscarriage because they didn't want her to get pregnant again. This sort of shit happens all the time in a lot of industries, of course, but in a firm whose specialty is employment law it's kind of outrageous, and the way the associate describes it going down in her angry farewell letter to the staff — called into the office a week after she'd been assured she'd get to stay; fired unceremoniously while a female mentor (with kids of her own) watched her break into tears — seems unduly harsh, so she decided to forgo the three month's severance in exchange for signing a non-disparagement agreement and unleash the thing upon the blogs. "If this response seems particularly emotional, perhaps an associate's emotional vulnerability after a recent miscarriage is a factor you should consider the next time you fire or lay someone off," she writes. More »

6:00 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Moe
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