In Miami, one current and two former employees said that women at a Planned Parenthood office were scared to tell managers they were pregnant. “It was looked down upon for you to get pregnant,” said Carolina Delgado, who worked in the Miami office until 2012. (Under the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act, it is illegal to consider whether a job candidate is or will become pregnant.) Financial pressures also explain why 49 of Planned Parenthood’s 55 regional offices — which each manage a set of local clinics — do not provide paid maternity leave. Employees in about 20 of those regions can use short-term disability to earn a portion of their salaries while on leave.

Source: New York Times December 20, 2018 19:41 UTC