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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 2008 I'm aware of a BigLaw firm that chose who to layoff based on hours and ended up terminating every single woman who had taken maternity leave in the past 12 months, as well as everyone who had taken FMLA.  (Paternity leave was far more limited back then.)  It ended in a group settlement with a payout, but those folks didn't get their jobs back in a terrible job market.

I'd hope law firms today are more savvy, but wouldn't count on it.  Memories are short.[/quote]

But as long as they ALSO fired people who hadn't taken maternity leave and FMLA, they are technically ok under employment law.  Which is horrible.  Employment law is not favorable to the employee.[/quote]
I didn't see the legal letters back and forth, but I know the firm considered that it was a pretty big goof up.  Apparently no one sanity checked or considered leave before finalizing the layoff list.

Having spent years of trying to increase the number of women with diversity initiatives, they decimated the number of women associates in a single action, including a number of women who'd been favorites and targeted to make partner.  It looked and smelled really bad.

Above the Law was also writing articles about mothers and minorities being targeted for layoffs and I'm sure no firm wanted to be featured.  [/quote]

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