Re:Whole Foods workers seek to unionize
by coldtea on Friday September 07, 2018 @09:47AM
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>Maternity leave is guaranteed for most employees under FMLA.
You'd be surprised.
The FMLA only mandates for unpaid leave. That's unlike most western european countries. And even that's under BS conditions and subject to employer power plays as opposed to totally normal and acceptable (and paid).
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/06/what-family-lea...
https://newfoodeconomy.org/giving-kitchen-staplehouse/
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/05/working-mothers-mo...
>That can be actionable too. If you are pregnant and they fire you, they are opening themselves up to so much liability it outweighs the few dollars they might save.
Maternity leave is not just for pregmant people. What about after birth?
Besides, there are lots of ways to make it so it's not actionable.
Re:Whole Foods workers seek to unionize
by gameswithgo on Friday September 07, 2018 @09:22AM
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normal people don't have the time or knowledge to begin those kinds of proceedings.
Re:Whole Foods workers seek to unionize
by coldtea on Friday September 07, 2018 @11:31AM
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Or the money to see them through... not to mention in smaller cities they can also be blacklisted (illegal or not, happens all the time to those asking for their rights, suing employees, looking to unionize, etc).
>They can find 100 ways to fire you in ways that don't break the letter of the law if you ask for something the law supposedly guarantees.
That can be actionable too. If you are pregnant and they fire you, they are opening themselves up to so much liability it outweighs the few dollars they might save.