Can a pregnant employee be shown favoritism at the expense of other employees?
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Can a pregnant employee be shown favoritism at the expense of other employees?
Husband is working at a company that recently allowed a female employee twice as many files so that she could make twice as much as everyone else the month before she had a baby. Although this is a nice gesture, we are a family of 6 recovering from bankruptcy and can use the income as much as a single mom of one. This is a mortgage company and the female employee was “fed” files that were essentially “clean” to close, while my husband received less than half as many files and 18 of them had subordination agreements that made them extremely difficult to close.
Asked on October 11, 2010 under Employment Labor Law, Georgia
Answers:
M.T.G., Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
Favoritism can be shown to any employee as long as it is not discrimination to another. The two are not really opposites but for the purposes of this discussion they are. That is really the issue that you have to deal with here: was your husband discriminated upon. And if he was then you have an issue to complain about. But if he has no basis for discrimination then you are out of luck. Maybe this was their way of giving her "paid" maternity leave if they company does not provide for same while she was out of work. But whatever the reason you can not focus on how the other employee is treated so much as how your husband is treated. Good luck.
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