Pregnancy discrimination: work/ life unbalanced
My employer gets away with pregnancy discrimination. Among the many things myself and other women have endured, the largest and last offense was denying my opportunity to promote into a supervisor position that comes with about a $20k pay raise. (Useful to mitigate the costs of newborn daycare, etc.)
Get this- my disqualification reason was because I was erratic with incomplete sentences during my phone interview. A phone interview which had been previously set-up because I had delivered my baby via C-section, released from the delivery hospital eighteen hours prior, and was transported from home on an ambulance with an unresponsive newborn five hours before the scheduled interview. AND, I was still in the children's ER watching a parade of nurses and doctors check my baby and running tests all while I wondered what was wrong and whether my child was going to die!
I requested to reschedule my interview, but they responded with either keep my interview or drop out of the process. Like an idiot I went through with it just to be humiliated by their response and finding out later that it had already been gossipped that I had failed my interview days before I knew and the official results posted!
Over sixteen years working for this employer and sadly this isn't even the worst that has happened to my coworkers. Now I'm on unpaid FMLA from a niche job with no possibility of going to another employer in the area. Read: start at the bottom somewhere else.
Thankfully, I graduated with a bachelor's degree earlier this year as the top ranking student in Business and Summa Cum Laude while working full-time and pregnant my last semester. (Hello $30k in student loans with payments about to kick in.)
So, here are a few questions I pose:
1) What and where can I find flexible work from home jobs with the flexibility to take care of my baby?
I'm ok at math and professional communication and would love the opportunity to be a project manager or work in finance. Learning is an addiction of mine; this allows me to be versatile and open to many career options. I conduct myself ethically and have a FICO score of 820 (until my debt to income ratio comes unglued!)
2) Are there any employment and discrimination attorneys recommended in Texas willing to take these and other issues to court on contingency? There may be a possibility for a class action suit. I'm not wanting to do this to get rich- it's for the betterment of current and future employees so new policies will be created and ENFORCED.
Sincerely,
FTM turned SAHM
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