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Article: Pregnant staff under pressure as employers flout job laws
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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A QUARTER of mothers-to-be say their bosses expect them to work
just as hard as before they became pregnant, despite laws which are
supposed to give them more rights.
A new study of attitudes among mothers-to-be has shown that
pregnant women still worry that they will lose their jobs and be made
to feel they are "letting the side down".
The study by the baby charity Tommy's, which questioned more than
1,100 women, even found that expectant mothers had been told by
bosses that they might lose their children.
Equality campaigners and employers last night reacted with anger
at the findings.