Two women were terminated in Vorarlberg after they have informed their employer about their pregnancy. The Chamber of Labor has intervened and for the affected that were affected, a total of 9,000 euros won for the affected ones.
The job did not even start, and they were already going on – so it was Mrs. L. and Mrs. T .. The reason for termination: their pregnancies.
In the first case: Mrs. L. finds a new job and signs the employment contract. Then she stops her previous, well -paid employment. During this time she learns that she is pregnant. Out of conviction that a fair working environment is important, she informs the new employer about her pregnancy before she starts working. It also brings concrete suggestions about how you can get back in after birth and take over projects. However, the employer responds anything but understanding and solves the employment relationship for the first working day. A shock for Mrs. L., she is suddenly there without work.
Mrs. T. was similar: she was also terminated by the employer after he learned about her pregnancy.
Turns were clearly illegal
However, termination as a result of pregnancy is in any case illegal – regardless of when it takes place. “The provisions of the Equal Treatment Act also apply in the trial period,” emphasizes AK expert Gloria Kinsperger. Although the agreement of a trial period generally enables both parties to terminate a termination of an employment relationship in the short term and to withdraw from a contract that has already been concluded, even before the start of the regular employment relationship, but “this option should not be used to disadvantage someone because of gender or pregnancy,” emphasizes Kinverger.
Because in the cases of Mrs. L. and Mrs. T. the termination was apparently related to pregnancy, the Chamber of Labor intervened – with the result that the two women received 5,000 and 4,000 euros in damage. They would also have had the opportunity to continue the employment relationship – but because of the behavior of their employers, they have abandoned themselves.
Heinzle: “Also disappointing”
Vorarlberg’s Chamber of Labor Bernhard Heinzle influences the two cases: “If a woman is excluded from a new job only because of her pregnancy, this is not only illegal, but also human disappointing.”
Source: Krone
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