Join our FREE personalized newsletter for news, trends, and insights that matter to everyone in America

Newsletter
New

My Wife, 36 Weeks Pregnant Today, Was Terminated From Her Work Unannounced

Card image cap

EDIT 1: Thank you for the overwhelming support everyone. Yesterday we had an OB appointment to check for the health of our baby as my wife is having a geriatric pregnancy. The doctor required us to come into the office twice a week for Fetal Heart Monitoring to make sure our baby is okay. While she was waiting for the doc to come, she broke down and she was crying in the room. Doctor was super supportive and encourage her to focus on our baby in the mean time. I am so thankful the FHM test went well and our little angel is healthy. In the mean time, the wifey wanted to destress for the next few days before we look into this matter. She has started a document to note down the timeline of everything from everyone's suggestions in the chat.

Hi guys,

Stressful time here for us, my wife just called me and she was crying as she just got called into meeting with one of the management and HR and she was let go this morning. Manager and HR just said she did not meet the company expectation due to feedbacks from other providers and patients. When my wife asked that she always asked to see where could she improves or fell short. Manager just said that is what she was told and just leave it at that. Right after the 5 minutes meeting, she received an email to her personal email of job termination and to return back the company's laptop (my wife is a provider who works at home remote job), and her work laptop was locked out and her work email was disabled right away after the arrival of the email. (her schedule was showing to see 20+ patients for today's work prior to the meeting)

My wife is a provider for 10+ years and this is the very first time she was let go from a job, it is more of a shock for her. I don't think her not meeting the company's expectation is the reason to terminate her as I suspect they simply did not want to compensate her for maternity leave. The reason being after she informed HR of her pregnancy, she started receiving a lot of schedule meeting from other managers about her performance. These meetings went on for the past 2 months with management wanting to meet her before work, during lunch hours, etc...

I am thinking of look into an employment lawyer to see if we can pursue a case. The only thing is she is new to the company, less than 1 year working, so I don't think she can qualify for anything. But it just pissed me off so much that she has been so stressed out about getting bombarded with 3-4 meetings a week. And each time she asked where she could improves, it was only replied with silence. One time she even pointed out others providers are doing the same mistake like her, one of the manager said she will follow up (which she didn't)

Location: Arizona

submitted by /u/sildenafeelit
[link] [comments]