New analysis from Pregnant Then Screwed, in partnership with Ladies In Information, claims there was a pointy enhance within the variety of ladies who’re pushed out of their job when pregnant, throughout or when getting back from maternity depart. As much as 74,000 ladies yearly now lose their job for getting pregnant or taking maternity depart – a rise of 37 p.c from 54,000 in 2016. Pregnant Then Screwed surveyed 35,800 dad and mom, then Ladies In Information extracted a nationally consultant pattern of 5,870 dad and mom to create its State of the Nation report. The report discovered that 12.3 p.c of ladies are sacked, constructively dismissed or made redundant while pregnant, on maternity depart or inside a 12 months of getting back from maternity depart. If scaled as much as the final inhabitants, this might imply as many as 74,000 ladies a 12 months are compelled to depart their job.
On prime of this, half (49.5 p.c) of pregnant ladies, these on maternity depart, and people getting back from maternity depart say that they had a detrimental expertise at work. Of those that had a detrimental expertise, 1 in 5 (20.6 p.c) left their employer. A 3rd (35.9 p.c) of ladies say they had been sidelined or demoted while pregnant, on maternity depart, or after they return from maternity depart. Regardless of all of this, simply 2 p.c of ladies who expertise discrimination elevate a tribunal declare.
A brand new regulation got here into drive in April 2024 to increase redundancy protections to pregnant ladies and people getting back from maternity depart.
Yesterday, Pregnant Then Screwed live-streamed a large bodily shredder, shredding the CVs of moms aired throughout a billboard in Westfield by Ocean Outside, recognized for its excessive footfall and on an internet site, careershredder.com. The marketing campaign may also see posters offered by Clear Channel plastered throughout the UK, touchdown on the identical day as The Apprentice airs with the phrases “Mum, you’re fired” – sadly, it doesn’t matter in case you land the job, in case you’re solely going to be pushed out while you turn into a mum.
Joeli Brearley, founding father of charity and marketing campaign group, Pregnant Then Screwed, stated: ‘’We’ve lengthy suspected issues are getting worse, not higher. Our free recommendation line is ringing off the hook, it has reached some extent the place we merely can’t address demand. To search out that 74,000 moms a 12 months are being pushed out of their job for daring to procreate isn’t a surprise, however it’s devastating. That’s a girl being pushed out of her job each 7 minutes within the UK for doing one thing that’s a part of the human existence.’’
‘’In 2016, the coalition authorities commissioned a report to raised perceive how widespread being pregnant and maternity discrimination is. The report discovered that issues had considerably deteriorated over the earlier 10 years. Regardless of committing to repeat the analysis each 5 years, this has not occurred so we’ve been compelled to take issues into our personal fingers. What kind of message does this ship to ladies – that the Authorities cares so little about this problem that they will’t even be bothered to gather the info.’’
To enhance your office tradition, the marketing campaign is asking corporations to extend their paternity depart provide, create household pleasant workplaces, together with promoting jobs as versatile (except there’s an excellent enterprise cause to not), and gather maternity retention knowledge to supply additional perception into firm behaviour.
