Maternity Discrimination: Not keeping mum – new mothers face dismissal and disadvantage
Åsa Waring and Dominic Boon consider ways to curb growing discrimination against expectant mothers and women returning from maternity leave ‘The Women and Equalities Committee suggested that the government response needed to be more robust if pregnancy-related discrimination is to decline over the next decade.’ The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the former …
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