Hobby Lobby Allegedly Fired Employee Due to Pregnancy
Source: RH Reality Check
When a very pregnant Felicia Allen applied for medical leave from her job at Hobby Lobby three years ago, one might think that the company best known for denying its employees insurance coverage of certain contraceptiveson the false grounds that they cause abortionswould show equal concern for helping one of its employees when she learned she was pregnant.
Instead, Allen says the self-professed evangelical Christian arts-and-crafts chain fired her and then tried to prevent her from accessing unemployment benefits.
They didnt even want me to come back after having my baby, to provide for it, she says.
Her allegationsas well as those brought by other former Hobby Lobby employeescall into question the companys public claims when it comes to protecting life and operating its business with Christian values. Additionally, they highlight a practice by which Hobby Lobby prevents its employees from seeking justice through the courts.
Read more: http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/07/29/hobby-lobby-allegedly-fired-employee-due-pregnancy
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)There's no creepiness too sleazy for GOPers looking to make a buck off other people.
BAKA YARO (Stupid Bastards)
싸 발
shenmue
(38,506 posts)"I have never seen a more sick group of people in this country than Republican men." - Mike Malloy
Blue Idaho
(5,060 posts)Where would Jesus shop? Not Hobby Lobby - that's for sure...
IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)He was Jewish and they don't carry any Jewish products.
Blue Idaho
(5,060 posts)tosh
(4,424 posts)...NOT.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Or even likely?
Kingofalldems
(38,496 posts)Triana
(22,666 posts)Innit?
I think so.
raptor_rider
(1,014 posts)At least they place I worked for, paid me for at least 8 weeks of my fmla!!! And they are too republican!!! Or was, I've not worked there for 3 years and I worked there for over 12 years!!! And I had two babies while working there!!!
lastlib
(23,323 posts)Uh-uh, bad for business!
cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)if a company wants to opt out of birth control for its healthcare they can but that they then have to provide 12 months of paid maternity leave instead.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)for some reason
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Ilsa
(61,707 posts)Married or not!: tsk:
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Beartracks
(12,821 posts)In my understanding, some rightwing law firm or activist group went trolling for potential cases to put Obamacare on trial with, and locked onto Hobby Lobby and their supposed problem with that law. HL, of course, went on to win the case all the way at the Supreme Court while publicly claiming to be all about Christian-based business practices, etc. -- so now everything about HL's businesses practices is pretty much open to scrutiny, revealing all the usual hypocrisy one would expect to find in any rightwing media darling when examined up close. And, true to form, you don't have to look too deep; the discrepancies between the moral posturing and the sordid reality are pretty much out in the open.
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