Felt like this belonged here. The culture of corporate treatment of parental leave in the US is disgusting. Leading up to the scheduled FMLA they constantly assured her of job security. They had her on a really nice insurance plan and 6 weeks paid leave. It just seems so fucked they would pull the rug out from under her days before they knew she would go into labor.
They celebrated our child to be as a “company baby” and even threw her a virtual baby shower. The whole job is remote. It feels like a betrayal- she worked hard and the company CEO is a billionaire. They blame the lay off on company expense and financial cuts but it seems designed around her pregnancy due to her excellence at work.
I guess we’re just exasperated and tired. I’m a struggling small business owner too and we both just find that no matter how hard we work the United States just continues to fuck the labor force. How we don’t have universal maternal/paternal leave at this point is bewildering. This puts our first time parenting journey in an extremely difficult position and we are now up against such a challenge.
Thanks for this movement that fights to improve inequity in the workforce. I hope one day we can build a society that doesn’t let this kind of shit happen.