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What is the Motherhood Penalty, and how can we challenge it?
This is an online event hosted by Unique Media. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time.
Pregnant Then Screwed is a campaign that exists to end the motherhood penalty, lobbying on the many issues that impact working mothers and offering free advice and support to those who face pregnancy or maternity discrimination. For many, these conditions have only worsened during the pandemic. This session is a call to arms against unscrupulous work practices and systems, and a toolkit for how to challenge them.
Taylor Moss s campaign has won the backing of Cherilyn Mackrory, the Conservative MP who co-chairs the baby loss All Party Parliamentary Group. Ms Moss is pictured above
Pregnant women who lose their babies must be given two weeks paid bereavement leave, an MP and other campaigners insist.
At the moment only women who lose their baby after 24 weeks are entitled to statutory leave.
A woman whose first child was stillborn at 23 weeks has started a petition to change the law after she was entitled to nothing – no paid leave, no rights .
Taylor Moss s campaign has won the backing of Cherilyn Mackrory, the Conservative MP who co-chairs the baby loss All Party Parliamentary Group.
by Bethany Rielly
CAMPAIGNERS fighting for improved government support for self-employed new mothers are seeking an appeal after their case was defeated today.
Charity Pregnant Then Screwed claims that thousands of new mothers have received less money from the government’s Covid-19 self-employment income support scheme (SEISS) because of how disbursements are calculated.
Under the scheme, the Treasury gives payments to the self-employed based on the average profit they made between 2016 and 2019.
But no exemption is provided for maternity leave taken during that time, leaving recent mothers with smaller grants than they would otherwise be entitled to.
Claiming that this amounts to indirect discrimination and breaches equality laws, Pregnant Then Screwed had called for the scheme to be reviewed.
RISHI SUNAK was taken to court in recent weeks over SEISS eligibility problems. The charity Pregnant Then Screwed took the Chancellor to court in late January for discriminating against women in regards to SEISS claiming rules and today the verdict has been released.