Pregnant? You're fired
The tough economic times - and more generous maternity benefits - appear to be prompting increasing numbers of firms to fire pregnant women or deny them their full entitlements.
Radha Basu
Sun, Nov 08, 2009
The Straits Times
The tough economic times - and more generous maternity benefits - appear to be prompting increasing numbers of firms to fire pregnant women or deny them their full entitlements.
There were 119 'pregnancy- related' complaints lodged with the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) in the first nine months of the year - up from 72 for the whole of 2007, and 95 last year.
That is the highest since records began in 2004 and represents a doubling of the rate per month compared with 2007.
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