Should I file legal suit for being fired for having a baby?

I am married and had my baby 8 weeks early. My boss didn't have a temp lined up and couldn't find on short notice, so she fired me and hired someone esle permanently. I lost my health insurance and half our income just when we needed it most. Legally, I couldn't do a thing, because my office is not covered under the Pregnancy Discrimation Act due to having less than 15 employees. The Employment Commission has already ruled in my favor and granted me unemployment for 23 weeks. My boss has not said one bad thing about my work performance, in fact she has said nothing but good things to the VEC. She even wrote me a letter of recommendation. Should I fight for my job back or compensation or should I let it go?
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I was employed there for a year and a half. My boss told the Employment Commission that the sole reason for letting me go was that I had a baby and needed to be off for 8 weeks per my doctor and she couldn't go without an assistant for that long.
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you can contact the National Labor Relations Board about this matter the # number 1-866-667-NLRB (1-866-667-6572) hope this helps to see what your rights are

Well, in some cases, if you've been employed by the same company for over a year, you are entitled to FLMA, which is the Family Leave Medical Act, which basically keeps your job safe until you return to work. So, has it been longer than a year? I think even under 15 employees is covered by that, but here is my opinion, if you boss didn't care enough about you to keep your job safe, that tells me I wouldn't want to work for him in the first place. Go find a better employer.

It sounds like some type of discrimination to me. It was obvious to them you would have a baby and they had plenty of notice in this when you started to show. I personally would collect the unemployment for the 23 weeks, in that time I would put out resumes or applications to family friendly companies. There are Forbes companies that are just that. Those will be very good to let you put your family first and take off if your child is sick or has a snow day and no child care,etc. This place doesn't sound like they would allow that.I wouldn't return to a place that was willing to easily let you go.

Here are some companies to try for instead to begin with:

The "100 Best" list is compiled from the results of a 67-page questionnaire detailing benefits policies and practices of each applicant company, as reported by their human resources executives. Each company is rated on a scale of one to five in five categories: child care, flexibility, leave for new parents, work/life benefits, and advancement of women.

For instance, while only 10 percent of U.S. companies overall offer on- or near- site child care, 68 percent of this year's "100 Best" have child care available. At Motorola, the self-described largest provider of work-site child care in the world, three quarters of the company's working moms have access to two new day care centers. Viacom expanded its childcare program this year to include grandkids, to address its uniquely multi-generational workforce.

Other "quality of life" benefits are even more exceptional, such as pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. offering on-site auto service and take-out meals from the company chef to heighten the quality of employees' lives. Novell, the Utah-based software company, provides dental exams, flu shots, a fitness club, and banking, while MBNA presents a $2,500 CD to each new baby born to an employee.

Among the top 10 contenders on the list, which includes Fannie Mae, Allstate Insurance Company, Bank of America and Eli Lilly, only IBM has been on the list for each of the last 15 years. Novant Health stands out as the only company that was listed for the first time this year, and made it in the top 10.
Hope this is useful and some food for thought to consider.

possibly call the people who fired you, and see if you can start there agina when you're better.

maybe they idnt WANT to fire you, but they had no option?

im sorry i dont know the anwer legally, but i am very sory to hear about this.

Talk to a lawyer about your rights, because that's a complicated case.

Fight if you really love that job. But do you really want to work for them after they dropped you because they were unprepared? I would find a better job with better benefits especially now that you have child

Do you have FLMA?

get a lawyer, and sue

Is it worth a fight? If your skills are marketable, then why not place all your energy into interviewing for a new employer? The letter of recommendation is a gold-piece to a new job, use it wisely.

yes thats really bad they should have thought the baby might come early.

what a buch of ******es

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