Petition Stop employers from making women redundant whilst on maternity leave

More should be done to protect women on maternity leave from losing their jobs.I was made redundant 4 months into my maternity leave and was left feeling the financial and mental effects of not having a job. Not entitled to redundancy pay or any government support. I now feed my son on £20 a week.

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More and more employers use "strategic changes" during maternity leave as a reason to push women out of their business. This causes women and families great distress at a time that should be happy and memorable. Having a child can be a financial shock and adding the pressure of taking someone's income away from them at such a sensitive time can be soul destroying and causes families to become desperate, especially those whom the government doesn't offer any support to.

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64 signatures

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Date closed 19 August 2016
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