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Maria Miller is calling on the Government to offer better protection for pregnant women (From Basingstoke Gazette)

Maria Miller is calling on the Government to offer better protection for pregnant women (From Basingstoke Gazette)

BASINGSTOKE MP Maria Miller is demanding for urgent action to protect pregnant women after a "shocking" increase in workplace discrimination during the past decade.Mrs Miller, who is chair of The Women and Equalities Committee, wants women in the UK to have protections similar to those in Germany, and has called on the Government to publish an ambitious, detailed plan within the next two years, or risk a further rise in pregnant women being forced out of their work.Recommendations include changes to health and safety practices, preventing discriminatory redundancies and an increase in protection for casual, agency and zero-hours workers.


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It's illegal, so why is discrimination against pregnant women still on the rise?

It's illegal, so why is discrimination against pregnant women still on the rise?

Last Updated: 3 hours agoAccording to research from the DBEIS and EHRC, no fewer that 11% of mothers they surveyed said they had been dismissed, made compulsorily redundant, or treated so poorly they felt they had to leave their job.That's almost double the figure from 2005, despite all the chatter about equality and the fact that in the intervening period the Equality Act of 2010 outlawed such blatant discrimination against pregnant women in the workplace.The survey - which was conducted in 2015 - is based on interviews with 3,034 employers and 3,254 mothers so it cannot be dismissed as a back of envelope affair.