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Pregnancy Discrimination or not?

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Smidge93 · 27/10/2024 19:57

I told my boss I was pregnant at 4 weeks (I have the type of job which i could be at risk if i didnt inform them early). When I asked about policy with morning sickness my boss said "oh I have no sympathy with morning sickness, I had it bad with both mine and just carried on"

I had to beg for a risk assessment to be done and when we eventually sat down my boss said "your pregnant, not dying, you can carry on as normal for now" she then fought me on every step of the risk assessment (it should be noted she doesnt actually do the job i do, she is simply a HR manager)

My DR booked me an early scan due to a complication which happened at the end of my last pregnancy. My boss made another comment of "I suppose that's good, some people just want to be pregnant so much they imagine all their symptoms and then go for a scan and nothing is there"

Is it just me or are both these comments unacceptable for a manager to make???

Based on the shoddy risk assessment I have since been deployed on a 22 hour job during which time I had 1 small bottle of water and no food until the end.

Any suggestions or thoughts??

OP posts:
rubyslippers · 27/10/2024 19:59

Utterly unacceptable and discriminatory
please keep a log - speak to ACAS
Employers have legal obligations no matter whether they did or didn’t have morning sickness

Grepes · 27/10/2024 20:01

“have since been deployed on a 22 hour job during which time I had 1 small bottle of water and no food until the end.”

Well this is unacceptable pregnant or not.

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