More than 100 women are contacting an employment law firm each month with queries about pregnancy related discrimination in the workplace, the firm’s principal has said.
Seán Ormonde, of Ormonde Solicitors, a Waterford-based firm specialising in employment law, said women being fired or made redundant due to pregnancy “is more common than you think”.
He made the comments on Wednesday when hosting a webinar on pregnancy-related discrimination.
Many women bring claims over pregnancy-related discrimination on principle, rather than for the money, he said. Their view is that pregnancy, although a “happy and joyous” time, is hard enough without experiencing unfair treatment along the way.
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Most claims are resolved without going to hearing before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), with many settling under the mediation service offered by the WRC, he said. His firm’s experience was that some 70 per cent of cases settle.
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