New mother fired while on maternity leave

[rdowns]

One word: Media.

Thirty one words: Go to the local media and shame them. Then send it to as many prominent job seeker blogs as you can. A little bad PR can go a very long way.

I'd be careful with that. I Google anyone I'm considering hiring. I wouldn't hire someone if I saw that they went after a former employer, even if justified.

 

[Skuman]

Even if there's no nasty stuff going on with the new temp, that is irrelevant. That's just me bi•••ing. The point is firing a new mother while on maternity leave is morally wrong. It is a shameful, horrible thing to do, and it's bs.

Something you need to know: businesses have no sense of morality. They are not people. They cannot have a sense of morality. The people working in them can, but not the business itself. Money is the only thing that a business is interested in. EDIT: perfect example: the post above this one.

Also, the bigger the business, the less important each employee there becomes. People are expendable. The armed forces is the perfect example of this expendability issue, where people control thousands of people's lives, knowing that many deaths will occur (WWII being the perfect example).

I am not being cynical, just realistic.

 

[jav6454]

I'd be careful with that. I Google anyone I'm considering hiring. I wouldn't hire someone if I saw that they went after a former employer, even if justified.

+1, unless there is a really good reason and she can prove it, I wouldn't go the media way.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

I'd be careful with that. I Google anyone I'm considering hiring. I wouldn't hire someone if I saw that they went after a former employer, even if justified.

Not that I blame you for doing that and honestly the best thing to do. There is a reason I try to limit what can be found out about me on google. In the first 10 links in googling my name you come up with at least 5-6 different people and the only one that I am even in is a linkin one. Add my college to the search and then you find me but what comes up there is good things.

More to my point your example is something wrong with the system and gives employers a lot of power to abuse the system. They know that if the person tries to get what is rightfully theirs they are screwing themselves over for future jobs.

Of course it can be argue that if the person wins they have the right to get more money out of that person for the decreased wages they will suffer because of the law suit.

 

[GfPQqmcRKUvP]

It's the evil employers!!!!

 

[Skuman]

Not that I blame you for doing that and honestly the best thing to do. There is a reason I try to limit what can be found out about me on google. In the first 10 links in googling my name you come up with at least 5-6 different people and the only one that I am even in is a linkin one.

This is an issue for me because my name is unique online: there is no other person on the internet with my name. I was online back in the days of Usenet, where people posted with their real names (I wonder how many in the gay newsgroups had problems later on), which was archived (to the general dismay of the Usenet population) and then converted to web pages.

There are companies that will provide services to basically place your name in as many webpages as possible, making it pretty much impossible to find out who is who and as a result, Googling a persons name becomes pretty much useless.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

This is an issue for me because my name is unique online: there is no other person on the internet with my name. I was online back in the days of Usenet, where people posted with their real names (I wonder how many in the gay newsgroups had problems later on), which was archived (to the general dismay of the Usenet population) and then converted to web pages.

There are companies that will provide services to basically place your name in as many webpages as possible, making it pretty much impossible to find out who is who and as a result, Googling a persons name becomes pretty much useless.

See what could get me in more trouble is if someone google my normal online handle because Rodimus I only use here.

That one could get me in trouble because not once have I run into some one else who uses the full handle but then I try to keep the online handle and my real name separated. Only place that I have found that they are linked in on Twitter but then again look for me there you come up with at least 15 people and my picture is not on twitter. Instead my icon is one I have been using for years.

Some it up for the most part my online identity is fairly well separated and hard to link the 2 up unless you know me.

 

[colourfastt]

No-one would hire her? If they asked the reasoning on what happened, at the very least, she'd get the sympathy nod from any future employer. But legally, if your state is a Right-to-Work state, they could not refuse her from being hired for a job. If she has the qualifications and is a fit for the position, they can not base their refusal to hire her on the actions of what happened at a previous position.

BL.

Correction: 'right to work' means you cannot be required to join a union at a company in order to work at that company, provided there is a union in place.