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The way that Planned Parenthood treats its pregnant employees is cruel, illegal...
wordpress ^ | December 21, 2018 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 12/21/2018 5:49:40 AM PST by grundle

The way that Planned Parenthood treats its pregnant employees is cruel, illegal, and extremely hypocritical

The New York Times just published this article, which is titled, “Planned Parenthood Is Accused of Mistreating Pregnant Employees.”

The article cites numerous examples of how Planned Parenthood has given absolutely horrible treatment to its pregnant employees.

Not only are these actions on the part of Planned Parenthood cruel, some of them are also illegal, and all of them are extremely hypocritical.

If there’s any one organization that should treat its pregnant employees with kindness and respect, as well as obeying the laws regarding pregnant employees, it’s Planned Parenthood.

Here are some excerpts from the article, along with my own comments:

Ms. Hairston told the human-resources department for Planned Parenthood’s clinic in White Plains, N.Y., that her high blood pressure was threatening her pregnancy. She sent the department multiple notes from her nurse recommending that she take frequent breaks.

Managers ignored the notes. They rarely gave her time to rest or to take a lunch break, Ms. Hairston said.

“I had to hold back tears talking to pregnant women, telling them to take care of their pregnancies when I couldn’t take care of mine,” she said. “It made me jealous.”

That is just downright plain mean.

Planned Parenthood… has been accused of sidelining, ousting or otherwise handicapping pregnant employees, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees.

In interviews and legal documents, women at Planned Parenthood… described discrimination that violated federal or state laws — managers considering pregnancy in hiring decisions, for example, or denying rest breaks recommended by a doctor.

These are the exact same kinds of illegal treatment of employees that left wing feminists have always claimed to be against. The fact that Planned Parenthood did this to its own pregnant employees is inexcusable, illegal, and terribly hypocritical.

… at Planned Parenthood, the country’s leading provider of reproductive services, managers in some locations declined to hire pregnant job candidates, refused requests by expecting mothers to take breaks and in some cases pushed them out of their jobs after they gave birth, according to current and former employees in California, Texas, North Carolina and New York.

Most Planned Parenthood offices do not provide paid maternity leave

How many zillions of times have left wing feminists said they were in favor of paid maternity leave? And can anyone name an organization that is more left wing feminist than Planned Parenthood? I dare say that these pregnant employees would have been treated far better if they had been working at one of the conservative, right wing, for-profit corporations that left wing feminists are always accusing of being “sexist” and “misogynist.”

A dozen lawsuits filed against Planned Parenthood clinics in federal and state courts since 2013 accused managers of denying workers rest periods, lunch breaks or overtime pay, or retaliating against them for taking medical leave.

Managers have discriminated against pregnant women and new mothers, according to interviews with the current and former Planned Parenthood employees and with organizers from the Office and Professional Employees International Union, which represents some Planned Parenthood workers.

In Miami, one current and two former employees said that women at a Planned Parenthood office were scared to tell managers they were pregnant. One of them said that, in conversations with supervisors, colleagues would often volunteer that they were not planning on having children or were gay or single.

“It was looked down upon for you to get pregnant,” said Carolina Delgado, who worked in the Miami office until 2012. “I don’t think that any supervisor had to literally say it for us to feel it.”

Apparently, Planned Parenthood would rather spend money fighting lawsuits than treat its pregnant employees with respect. Absolutely disgusting.

A former hiring manager at a Planned Parenthood in California said that when internal promotions came up, supervisors openly debated whether candidates were likely to get pregnant in the near future and preferred those who were not. They declined to hire one pregnant woman and to promote one new mother, the employee said. (Under the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act, it is illegal to consider whether a job candidate is or will become pregnant.)

The former manager said her colleagues felt they couldn’t afford to promote someone only to lose them for several weeks.

Completely despicable. It was left wing feminists who fought so hard to pass the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act in the first place. How dare they violate the very same law that they expect everyone else to obey.

49 of Planned Parenthood’s 55 regional offices — which each manage a set of local clinics — do not provide paid maternity leave

89% of Planned Parenthood’s regional offices do not give paid maternity leave to their employees. So why do they even call themselves “Planned Parenthood” in the first place?

Tracy Webber, the former director of clinical services in White Plains, sued the organization for pregnancy discrimination in 2009, saying she had been fired four weeks after giving birth. Planned Parenthood settled for undisclosed terms.

Planned Parenthood fired an employee because she became a parent? That’s mean, and it’s illegal, and especially, it’s the height of hypocrisy.

A woman who worked at Planned Parenthood’s New Rochelle, N.Y., clinic and who declined to be named said in an interview that, when she got pregnant last year, managers ignored her doctor’s note recommending frequent breaks. Her manager asked her to delay her maternity leave and, after she gave birth, pressed her to return early.

The fact that Planned Parenthood ignored a doctor’s note from one of its own pregnant employees makes me wonder about the quality of the medical care and advice that Planned Parenthood gives to its own clients.

A medical assistant at the same clinic was fired in May 2018, the day she returned from maternity leave, according to a former human resources manager who oversaw the clinic. Jonas Urba, the woman’s lawyer, said she reached a confidential resolution with Planned Parenthood.

Once again, Planned Parenthood fired one of its employees because she became a parent. This kind of behavior by Planned Parenthood is extraordinarily hypocritical.

When Ms. Hairston asked for regular breaks, including 30 minutes for lunch, her supervisors brushed her off. Ms. Hairston said she sent multiple notes from her nurse at Full Circle Women’s Health to the regional office’s human resources department, stating that the extra breaks were medically necessary. No one responded, and nothing changed, according to Ms. Hairston and the former human resources manager.

Ms. Hairston’s hands and feet swelled; the clinic’s plastic gloves no longer fit. Her blood pressure got so high that her doctor put her on bed rest when she was seven months pregnant.

She returned to work on strict orders to not work more than six hours a day and to take regular breaks. One day in March, she worked a much longer shift. She soon became so sick that her doctor told her to go back on bed rest. A few days later, on March 23, she went to the hospital. Doctors performed an emergency C-section. She was 34 weeks pregnant.

When she had been on maternity leave for eight of the 12 weeks guaranteed by the Family and Medical Leave Act, Planned Parenthood’s human resources department called her multiple times and urged her to return to work early, Ms. Hairston said. She emailed the department and said she felt “discriminated against.” She resigned in June.

So this is how Planned Parenthood treats pregnant women. This is astoundingly horrendous. Shame on Planned Parenthood for treating women the exact opposite of the way Planned Parenthood tries to depict itself in its publicity material.

So, there you have it. Planned Parenthood is mean to its pregnant employees, it breaks the very laws that it claims to support, and it apparently has no interest in helping its female employees who “plan” to become “parents,” despite that being the organization’s very name.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: defundpp; doasisay; leftists; workplace

1 posted on 12/21/2018 5:49:40 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Realize that feminism at its core is an anti fertility cult and Planned Parenthood is its SS. A pregnant woman working for Planned Parenthood is about as absurd as the German SS having a rabbi as a chaplain.


2 posted on 12/21/2018 6:00:06 AM PST by allendale (.)
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To: grundle

Pregnant workers there is not good for business and it is all about business not souls.


3 posted on 12/21/2018 6:02:19 AM PST by Toespi
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To: grundle

They think all pregnancies should be terminated. Killing the unborn is a business. Their business.


4 posted on 12/21/2018 6:08:25 AM PST by Spok
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To: allendale

Yeah...I really feel sorry for anyone who wakes up every morning and does the three esses for the sole purpose of killing babies. Great analogy!


5 posted on 12/21/2018 6:11:38 AM PST by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: grundle

PP probably has a retention problem. I’m guessing that when most of their clientele comes in, they are NOT happy to be there. So the employees are dealing with difficult situations on a regular basis, which probably increases turnover, and you gotta figure that most employees there are true believers. PP would rather have more “reliable” true believers. Pregnancy is pretty inconvenient, and goes against the convenience they are selling.

PP is a bastion of evil. Are we surprised?


6 posted on 12/21/2018 6:27:35 AM PST by microgeek42
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To: grundle

Well you cant have pregnant women running around telling other people to get an abortion can you? That and they are just a bunch of cells. /s


7 posted on 12/21/2018 6:32:34 AM PST by pas
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To: grundle

I guess once you get away with selling baby parts, you’re allowed to think you’re untouchable. That the Times would publish this is truly remarkable. Did someone forget to tell that PP is in the far left camp?


8 posted on 12/21/2018 6:32:51 AM PST by OrangeHoof (CNN - the most busted name in news.)
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To: microgeek42

Yes, an evil endorsed since 1973 by the American people who won’t elect people at all levels who will end the barbarity.


9 posted on 12/21/2018 6:49:28 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: grundle
"Planned Parenthood" HATES Babies!

Their title should be "Planned Barrenhood"!

Except barren isn't good enough for those who thrive in killing babies.

10 posted on 12/21/2018 6:50:07 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: grundle

The sooner Leana Wen, Cecile Richards and their type are aborted, the better.


11 posted on 12/21/2018 7:07:15 AM PST by boknows
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To: grundle

The logic is irrational. Why would anyone expect baby killers to have any sympathy for expectant mothers?

And why should we have any sympathy for a pregnant woman who would help further the ends of the baby killers?


12 posted on 12/21/2018 7:44:02 AM PST by PAR35
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To: grundle

The Feminazis at PP are pro-choice, as long as the choice is to abort!


13 posted on 12/21/2018 9:29:19 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: grundle

PP regards pregnant employees who do not get abortions as traitors who must be punished.


14 posted on 12/21/2018 10:25:53 AM PST by arthurus (d)
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To: G Larry
Their title should be "Planned Barrenhood"!

That's an excellent point.

15 posted on 12/21/2018 12:37:32 PM PST by grundle
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