Submitted on Wednesday 17th February 2016
Published on Friday 19th February 2016
Current status: Closed
Closed: Friday 19th August 2016
Signatures: 64
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Stop employers from making women redundant whilst on maternity leave
More should be done to protect women on maternity leave from losing their jobs.I was made redundant 4 months into my maternity leave and was left feeling the financial and mental effects of not having a job. Not entitled to redundancy pay or any government support. I now feed my son on £20 a week.
More and more employers use "strategic changes" during maternity leave as a reason to push women out of their business. This causes women and families great distress at a time that should be happy and memorable. Having a child can be a financial shock and adding the pressure of taking someone's income away from them at such a sensitive time can be soul destroying and causes families to become desperate, especially those whom the government doesn't offer any support to.
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