苏州夜网,苏州楼凤,苏州桑拿,苏州夜生活      Powered by Ahwey!Home示例页面‘I didn’t tell them that I was pregnant’: Call to scrap maternity loophole        December 13th, 2018        | BYadmin        | Category:苏州夜网        |Comments ClosedA legal exemption that allows employers to refuse to hire someone who knew they were pregnant when they applied for the job is being targeted for abolition.Two subsections in the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 allow employers to dismiss women who knew they were pregnant when they applied for a job.NSW Greens MP and spokesperson for the status of women, Mehreen Faruqi, will introduce a new bill to Parliament to repeal the sections.“It’s time for NSW to come into step with all other state and federal laws on sex discrimination and remove these exemptions that protect employers who have been discriminatory towards pregnant women,” Dr Faruqi said.“We know pregnancy discrimination at work is still a huge problem in  and many women suffer in silence.“The fact that NSW has these exceptions means that they are turned away from the NSW Anti-Discrimination Commission which is unacceptable. We urgently need to change this law to protect pregnant women from discrimination.”A woman who made a complaint to Dr Faruqi’s office but did not want her name published told Fairfax Media she was pregnant when she recently applied for a communications strategy job.She did three face-to-face interviews and submitted essays and examples of her work before being offered a job when she was about 4?? months pregnant.“I didn’t hide my pregnancy, but I didn’t tell them that I was pregnant,” she said.After being hired the woman called the CEO of the company and told him she was pregnant “as a courtesy” and said she would need four months of maternity leave.“Then I could jump back into it. We were launching a product, but the launch would have been happening in June and I would have been on maternity leave from September.”The CEO then offered to put her on a temporary four-month contract instead of the full-time job she had been offered.Within days after starting work she was dismissed on the basis that she lived 45 minutes away from the office.After the woman tried to lodge a complaint about the employer, she was told exemptions under the Anti-Discrimination Act applied.Subsections 25 (1A) and 25 (2A) of the act have exemptions that allow an employer to refuse to hire or to fire an employee who was pregnant at the time of applying for the job, at the time of interview or at the time of hiring. There is an exception for a woman who did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that she was pregnant.“It makes no sense to me. I’m the one being discriminated against,” the woman said.Dr Faruqi said the NSW Law Reform Commission reviewed the Anti-Discrimination Act in 2009 and proposed a draft bill that removed the exemptions an