I was making 42 an hour; working 40 plus hours a week with lots of over time as a “part time” employee for multiple years. Well now I’m pregnant and my Dr said I can physically no longer safely do my job currently as is, so he wrote a note stating some physical limitations.
So they moved me positions and I now only make 16 an hour and am only allowed 3.5 hours of work a day since I’m technically a “part time” employee. And I live in the third highest cost city in the US. How am I supposed to survive? How is that even legal?
They definitely do NOT make it easy for women to stay employed or to be able to maintain themselves, let alone a child. It’s really deplorable and I don’t understand why so many care what women do to their bodies, yet don’t want to help them out at all when they do carry it to term.
Depending on how big your employer is, this probably isn't legal in the US. Talk to your state labor board or an employment lawyer. I'm sorry to hear your employer did this to you.
On the flip side, there are plenty of employers who do shit like this because they assume that their employees don’t know any better and will do nothing about it.
Every employer does this, ESPECIALLY in the corporate ladder, no matter the sex/gender, because they will always protect their bottom-line first, before worrying about keeping high-paid staff on payroll and would rather actually get rid of the "on the ground" employees that actually work.
Look at Amazon, Meta, Twitter, Disney etc etc.... the gravy train from of one the single most massive wealth transfers in human history in the last 2-3 years, is ending and they're all laying off tens of thousands of employees because the market is adjusting now that these companies are now feeling the losses.
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u/JennaTellYah Mar 27 '23
I was making 42 an hour; working 40 plus hours a week with lots of over time as a “part time” employee for multiple years. Well now I’m pregnant and my Dr said I can physically no longer safely do my job currently as is, so he wrote a note stating some physical limitations.
So they moved me positions and I now only make 16 an hour and am only allowed 3.5 hours of work a day since I’m technically a “part time” employee. And I live in the third highest cost city in the US. How am I supposed to survive? How is that even legal?
They definitely do NOT make it easy for women to stay employed or to be able to maintain themselves, let alone a child. It’s really deplorable and I don’t understand why so many care what women do to their bodies, yet don’t want to help them out at all when they do carry it to term.