Fired Two Months Before Maternity Leave.

Location: NewYork

Job location Minnesota

Im writing this post for my partner/the mother of my unborn child in hopes that we can get some advice. She works remotely for a company located in Minneapolis as an account manager. Earlier this year, she received a promotion and a significant raise for how hard working she was at her job. The company continuously put more and more responsibilities and had her doing the jobs of multiple roles. We found out she was pregnant shortly after this point. However, we waited until about two months ago to let her job know, which was still earlier than required in order qualify for maternity leave etc. Despite being constantly overworked and loyal for 8 years, they decided to let her go this morning. They offered 3 month severance and 14 days to sign the separation letter. It is possible that she has made mistakes (mistyping an invoice, email etc.) And that is what they say is the reasoning, however they had felt she was valuable enough to give a promotion and a 10+% raise before she was pregnant. This unexpected termination will lose her access to maternity leave and Paid Family Leave from another job if she were to even find another job in the 2 months until the due date. If they said its "performance related," is there even a claim for wrongful termination/discrimination? They also froze her access to her email and team messaging, so we can't see if there is evidence that would be helpful if we were to try a case. Is there some sort of legal way of having them extend that 14 days to investigate before agreeing and if we were to build a case is there like a discovery of all her messages and emails that we could have access to before going to a local lawyer? Can they just delete them before we ask? Also a side note the stress of the job mixed with pregnancy hormones led her to needing to start zoloft due to the depression and stress of the job during pregnancy. Is "pregnancy brain" an argument for disability discrimination if they say that she has performed worse following her promotion during the time she was pregnant? I apologize for the long text and hope my post is not breaking any rules. We are just desperately looking at all our options as the significant loss of half our income before our first child. We feel powerless to this company and would love any sort of legal advice that can be given. Thanks so much