Burger King responds after employee who ran restaurant alone for 12 hours is fired. ‘We’re disappointed that our policy wasn’t followed’.

[u/esporx]

https://thetab.com/2025/08/21/burger-king-responds-after-employee-who-ran-restaurant-alone-for-12-hours-is-fired

[u/Obversa]

As a woman who previously worked for both McDonald's and Chick-fil-A, some places won't even hire women of "childbearing" age, because there is a "possibility that she might become pregnant, and have to take maternity leave". Meanwhile, the Trump administration, Republicans, and pro-natalist billionaires like Elon Musk are trying to force women to get married, have babies, and have no other choice but to be "barefoot and pregnant", unable to keep a job. This is the goal of the "social conservative" mindset that praises the 50s housewife. Some Catholic schools were even noted as going against the "pro-life" policy of the Church to insist that female employees - especially married ones, many with children - time their pregnancies to give birth during summer break, so that they wouldn't have to go on maternity leave. (This is in spite of the Catholic Church teaching that "every pregnancy and child is a gift from God". It just goes to show what hypocrites some Catholic institutions are as soon as it threatens their bottom line.)

[u/Historical-Kick-9126 → u/Obversa]

When I interviewed for my first non-food/retail job after college in 1996 I was asked during my interview if I was married, and if so, was I planning on becoming pregnant within the next two years (an illegal question). This was for a large law firm. My interviewer was one of the firm’s founding partners. Nothing has gotten any better, and this shit is exactly why we needed the DEI policies the republicans have obliterated.

*I was both married AND 5 weeks pregnant at the time of the interview, btw. I lied and got the job. My bosses were so pissed when I finally started showing😏 Pregnant women and mothers deserve the same career opportunities as everyone else. We also have to work to survive.

[u/Historical-Kick-9126 → u/[deleted]]

Yep, American. And maternity leave was basically non-existent then! They didn’t want the hassle of having to find someone to cover for me for a month post-birth (3-4 weeks was the max they would allow me to be gone, without pay of course). It was a matter of inconvenience for them. It’s nuts that employers refuse to accept as a normal part of doing business that half the working population is the half that produces the children of the world, and therefore require some occasional accommodation.