[jammer]

You're correct about only one side. If the story is basically correct, however, it is negative in more ways than one: it just furnishes (legitimate) ammunition to those economically ignorant who want more regulation like the Family Leave Act.

[khnyny]

"You're correct about only one side. If the story is basically correct, however, it is negative in more ways than one: it just furnishes (legitimate) ammunition to those economically ignorant who want more regulation like the Family Leave Act."

Hopefully you will never encounter a situation with yourself or a family member such as described in the article. Pregnant women are also fired sometimes when a company finds out that they're pregnant (or at least they used to). I know, it happened to a relative of mine. She sued and she won. This relative was one of the top producers in the company, but said company did not want to pay benefits and take the risk of the employee not returning to work. They are currently no longer in business as they made piss-poor business decisions and went bankrupt, lol.

[Vicomte13]

"it is negative in more ways than one: it just furnishes (legitimate) ammunition to those economically ignorant who want more regulation"

It is not "economically ignorant" to look at situations like this, and the firing of pregnant women (commonplace, in the past), age discrimination, purposeful firing of employees a year before retirement, etc., and realize that the law has to provide recourse against bad acts of employers.

The economic impact of abusive firings is catastrophic on the individuals affected and their families, most people are workers, look at these things, realize that they are just as exposed to it, and RATIONALLY turn to government to protect THEIR OWN economic interests.

Oh, and there's plenty of regulation in the United States, but the unemployment rate is only 4.8% and growth is over 3%, so the complaints that business "can't handle the regulation" are baseless. Business can. And does. And is doing very well. It just doesn't WANT to.
Which is too damned bad, because people have to protect their own interests against abuse by employers.