Listen, it's the bird show. All right, here is, she wants to be called Lisa, and she's on the voice discusser. So we may ask you guys if you're in human resources or you know something about hiring and firing and employment that we may want to get some help from you here because Lisa's scratching her head a little bit. Hey, Lisa. Hey, how are y'all doing? Good, Good morning. All right, so you just got fired or you think you're

about to be fired? No, I just got fired. I was hired to work for this company, let's call it a medical

company about a month ago, and during the interview process, I did not disclose that I was pregnant

because legally I didn't have to. And how far along were you? About five months.

I wasn't trying to hide it.

I just didn't disclose.

Anyway, I was doing a really good job.

You know, my supervisor had called multiple times to praise my work and everything was going

really well.

And so I felt comfortable telling them I was pregnant.

So I did tell them and about three days later I was fired for being pregnant, for having to take a maternity leave.

What reason did they use?

Their exact words, because I had to take significant time off.

I cannot work the hours.

And they wrote that down on paper for me.

So my question is, you know, how legal is this and what are my chances in fighting for it?

Can I ask what kind of job it was? It's a medical job working with kids, actually. Is it a job that

comes up often? Like, after you have the baby, can you get that job easily, or is it more of a

specialty position? No, it's kind of an office job, and it was part-time as well. Were you going to be able to qualify for any of the benefits of a maternity leave? Were you going to have paid benefits? I mean, I could have the 12-week leave, but I didn't have, like, insurance or anything like that. They were going to pay you. It was just a matter of you just not being there for the maternity leave. Yeah, it was unpaid leave for maternity leave. This is a big company or this is a smaller company? It's a nationwide company. I mean, they have offices all over the country, but it's not huge. Okay. My first thought was that, you know, big companies like that, especially if they're nationwide, they pretty much know the letter of the law.

Sometimes they do make mistakes, and it's one employee that makes a mistake, but I think for the most part, it's like they know what they're supposed to write down and what they're not. I don't think you can assume that, though. I can make a guess as to what happened, especially a part-time job. You probably had 90 days of conditional employment. we try you out, you try us out, and you've got 90 days.

And it says in the employee paperwork that during those 90 days, they can let you go for any reason.

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