Pregnancy Discrimination For Not Wearing Company Issued Uniform
I’m 5 months pregnant and just starting to show my belly. We wear stretchy polo shirts at work tucked in (that were given to us by the company) and my boss is starting to tell me that its against the law for me to not be wearing a maternity shirt and that I need to go buy some for work. I still have plenty of room in my shirt and maternity clothes are still really big on me right now, does anyone know of anywhere I can find something proving it’s a form of discrimination and that I’m COMFORTABLE in my uniform…I don’t want to be different for 4 months of my pregnancy and if he wants me to wear maternity shouldn’t the company supply them? I don’t want to be a jerk about it but I really don’t think that I should be forced into wearing something different (color and without the company logo) and pay for it when everyone else’s is supplied…help!
He’s told me we didn’t have our uniform in maternity sizes and when I told him it’d probably be 2 months before I needed something different he said if i wanted to continue working I needed to get new shirts. My company really sucks….its big…yet he’s co-owner so there’s no one on top of him to help me..I just wanted to print some laws and show him when he asks me again.
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There is no law requiring pregnant workers to wear maternity clothes. Don’t put the burden of proof on your shoulders, make HIM go find this “law” and supply you with a copy.
If it is company policy to supply uniforms and pay for them, then it must be evenly applied to ALL workers, pregnant ones included. If not, then yes, that would be pregnancy discrimination. Not only that, but he threatened you with your job over the matter.
Document everything he says and does. Here is how to document problems at work.
This jerk needs to be stopped. Because there is no one higher on the food chain that him, if your company has more than 20 employees, including management, file a claim with the EEOC.
http://www.eeoc.gov/employees/howtofile.cfm
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/pregnancy.cfm
If you have less that 20 employees, then contact your state’s department of labor.