Is there such a thing as parental discrimination?
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Is there such a thing as parental discrimination?
So my manager asked me and another employee, who’s also recently had a baby, to change our availability due to a new routine she wants to implement. No other stores it’s a corporate chain is doing this new routine, but if we agree to increasing our availibility then we’d have to pay for daycare, which wined of us can afford. We were given the option to either agree to change our availability, demote
ourselves we’re both supervisors with a pay decrease or transfer to another store. I’ve been working for this company for over 6 years and my managers have always been willing to work with my availability. It feels like I’m being forced to quit.
Asked on July 23, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, California
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
No, sadly enough, there is no such thing as parental discrimination in employment: even in your state, which has more things protected from employment discrimination than the vast majority of states, being a parent or having parently obligations is *not* protected under the law, which means that employers do not need to take any consideration of it whatsoever and can freely adopt schedules or workplace policies bad for parents. It is common for parents to have to pay for childcare in order to be able to work.
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