The Ohio Chamber of Commerce brings us this funny video about how not to fire pregnant employee:
Sadly, life sometimes imitates art.
Last week, the EEOC announced that it had sued a Mississippi hotel operator for … you guessed it … pregnancy discrimination:
According to the EEOC’s suit, Te’Shawn Harmon informed her manager of her pregnancy on her first day of work. That evening, the manager terminated Harmon and replaced her with a non-pregnant employee.
Ugh. Some call it stupidity. I like to think of it as job security.