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Family Responsibility Discrimination (FRD)
July 11, 2006 by Ross Runkel at LawMemo
At Hastings College of The Law there's a program called Center for Worklaw Life. Elsewhere, I mentioned an article they published: Litigating the Maternal Wall.
They've coined a new phrase, so listen up.
Family Responsibility Discrimination (FRD)
What is it?
This quote from the Center's web site:
Pregnant women, mothers and fathers of young children, and employees with aging parents or sick spouses/partners may find themselves discriminated against. They may be rejected for employment, demoted, harassed, passed over for promotion, or terminated – despite good performance evaluations – simply because their employers make personnel decisions based on stereotypical notions of how they will or should act.
Here are some examples of Family Responsibilities Discrimination:
- firing pregnant employees or telling them to get an abortion if they wish to remain employed;
- giving promotions to less qualified fathers or women without children rather than to highly qualified mothers;
- developed hiring profiles that expressly excluded women with young children;
- terminating employees without a valid business reason when they return from maternity or paternity leave;
- giving parents work schedules that they cannot meet for childcare reasons while giving nonparents different schedules; and
- fabricating work infractions or performance deficiencies to justify dismissal of employees with family responsibilities.
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