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[quote=Anonymous]Okay, so you don't KNOW that the other associates got a bonus. You're just assuming based on past years. If you're not comfortable asking them, then you have to ask your boss.

Don't make it about the pregnancy. Make it about clarifying if there were bonuses last year. Something like:

"Hey Jim, I was just going through my tax paperwork and was trying to reconcile a few items. Did the firm issue bonuses last year? If so, when will they be paid out? I haven't seen mine come across but want to make sure I didn't miss it."

He'll either say "Oh, we didn't do bonuses because of X" or he might say something vague like, "No, you didn't miss it."

At that point, start questioning. You're an attorney, you can sort this out. Something like, "Oh, no one got bonuses this past year?" You do need to get to the heart of if only you were excluded, but you need to do it in a way that doesn't automatically assume they excluded you because of the time off.

From there you can decide what you want to do. But don't go in assuming the worst - that puts everyone on the defensive. [/quote]

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