Job Offer withdrawn after informing employer that I am pregnant.

[Char1997]

Hi all,

I originally posted this on as a pregnancy thread. As the situation has evolved I have been advised to post on here. I was offered a job yesterday afternoon and although I know I was under no obligation to inform them, I told the employer that I was expecting in December. Since then I have had the job offer withdrawn as they felt that I “misled them” and wasn’t honest. Is anyone able to give me some advice if I were to take this further.

Well done you! Good luck! I'll keep my fingers (and toes) crossed for you

Well done!
I've been lurking, but wanted to say how pleased I am that you have challenged this and how sorry I am about the stress and financial loss it has caused.

Good luck op. I had a poor experience when pregnant. I settled on 6 months pay plus costs for stress and anxiety. I had to sign a non disclosure agreement too x

Good luck OP! Can’t believe sometimes that this kind of thing is still going on

Well done OP for sticking this out and I hope your settlement reflects the seriousness of the situation.

Stories like this are why I was genuinely scared to apply for other jobs in my early pregnancy.
Pleased things are moving in the right direction for your OP.

I haven't RTFT but I almost feel sorry for the company after reading their email responses. Completely unprofessional, looks more like a text that you would send your friend. They probably aren't great to work for anyway. Well done to you OP and all the best for job hunting and the baby

Good luck.

Glad to hear you’re pursuing this OP.

Make sure you’ve kept a record of any applications and interviews that you’ve applied for since the offer was withdrawn. It’ll stand you in good stead to show that you were looking for a position in good faith, and you’re still trying to find a role in earnest.

Good luck Char!

Just skim read the thread, sorry you were treated so badly but well done for pursuing this.

I wish you luck in searching for a job. I would attend all interviews and reassure them you are a hard worker. Or why don't you look to get a contract role on a rolling monthly basis?

What line of work are you in?

Good for you, another good organisation to try are Pregnant then Screwed.

They will send a volunteer lawyer to represent you in a tribunal if it gets that far.

I would absolutely also post a review about this on this company's Glassdoor if they have one.

Way too many companies get away with this, and you're in the highly rare position of actually having concrete evidence of pregnancy discrimination. I hope you get the maximum payout

@Frugalfox yes I am in full agreement with you - we are a small company and it's happened to us twice!

People have to remember small companies sometimes struggle, some months we lose money and if the company cannot trade, it means jobs get lost.

I don't think employed people have a clue about the difficulties in business and the stresses things like this cause for, particularly small employers.

I just wanted to say good luck - I had this happen to me when I was pregnant, and I didn’t have the wherewithal to Persue it at the time.

So glad for you, well done.

I would love to have been a fly in the wall when they heard about the claim!

Good luck

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You're awesome for doing this. Wishing you all the very best of luck

Wishing you a swift positive resolution to all this, OP. Well done for standing up to blatant discrimination.

It’s only one aspect of the whole mess, but how infuriating that you were called dishonest/misleading, when you disclosed to them well before you were even obliged to

*People have to remember small companies sometimes struggle, some months we lose money and if the company cannot trade, it means jobs get lost.

I don't think employed people have a clue about the difficulties in business and the stresses things like this cause for, particularly small employers.*

You could try being better at your chosen career before starting a business in it that people's livelihoods depend on, or failing that, not starting a business in it?

Just an update - the deadline for the company to respond to the acas conciliation is tomorrow (September 6th) but they have asked for an extension so that one director can get the full story from the other🧐🧐 not sure how much more they need considering the first email I received stated they had decided together that they felt the same way regarding hiring me due to my pregnancy. Anyways, deadline has now been extended to the 20th of September!

Thanks for the update! Frustrating that they’re dragging it out, though.

Will be really interested to hear what happens next if you have time to let us know.

A pain that they’ve extended the deadline but at least you’re in the system so to speak now.

Good luck

Stay strong OP.