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Yes and I didn't do enough.
I had started to work for really in general bad people but I noticed a huge change of attitude when I said I was pregnant. I didn't want to make a big deal of it and they were in general just bad people so I wasn't really sure if it was discrimination since they were bad about lots of things. But it's still illegal to change the way you treat someone bc of their pregnancy.

Well I quit and verbally explained that to other faculty (along with the other questionable things they did) but did nothing else. The next girl they hire was pregnant, which they didn't know. When she announced her pregnancy they fired her. We both wrote lengthy letters to HR and talked to the office of diversity at the university at that point but it didn't do much.

Finally years later they're being tossed, or so I hear. But this is years of them treating people like crap and doing questionably legal things. I should have spoken up more and been harder to ignore, I tried to be as quiet as possible about it and it just allowed them to be crappy to a lot more people. Honestly I was almost more disappointed that I told people I respected and they all went and talked to them but did really very little to make them change.

My boss asked me to work back my hours or forfeit pay for time taken for prenatal appointments. I am salaried professional staff and prohibiting a pregnant woman from attending her prenatal appointments is against the law for any worker. My brother is a lawyer and I sought his counsel immediately. I told my boss I would not be working any time back and then emailed her a copy of the Maternity Protection Act. Thankfully she was silenced after that email.

My wife's situation is not illegal but they basically told her DO NOT get pregnant/have a baby. No light duty means she could be off work at any unknown point and they will not pay her insurance while she is out. So not only will we not have an income we have to pay extra just to keep insurance while she's not working. That along with what I imagine will be a lot of informal discrimination in the form of comments about being able to do her job, women on the force, etc. and I'm not really looking forward to this aspect of the future. She's a police officer by the way.

Also when I birth our baby she will not get time off since we don't live in a state that recognizes her as a parent. Awesome.

Wow! I didn't know this was so common.

I thought for sure I would be fired as soon as my boss found out I was pregnant. I was wrong, thankfully, but I was a field person and I couldn't work after 6 months, realistically.

My husband did "unofficially" get fired for taking parental leave, however, which is totally not allowed in Canada. He hated the company he was working for though, and was looking for a new job. They gave him a healthy severance package, so we just took it as a head start in job hunting and didn't take any action.

He ended up with a job less than a week later with a much better company getting paid substantially better, so it all worked out for the best.

@Fronkinzankinsbride: that is terrible for both you and your wife and makes me very angry. I wish you guys could come to California

Yes, my supervisor started in on my when I went for my IVF which is not protected. It worked and all of a sudden I was a terrible worker. I went to HR about it but it was too late (only 30 days). He wrote a scathing review which I got over turned because it was just plain wrong. I could either take it to the eeo office or go through the regular process not both. So I did the regular process and won. Then I got to leave and work at a better place.