Tip: don't blame a pregnant woman's "hormones" for job performance before firing her

Lexology
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

William A. Schreiner, Jr.

USA

November 15 2012

 

Let’s start this story with a basic truth: it’s generally a bad idea to tell a pregnant woman that her hormones will make her “get emotional” and get “caught up in things” in a way that affects her judgment.

You need not take this from me as a lawyer-blogger. Take it from me as a guy whose wife is pregnant with our first child. Blaming anything in our house on pregnancy hormones is a one-way ticket to the basement couch.

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