Pregnant women are being forced out of their jobs through fake redundancies and vanishing shifts — and the government bodies meant to track the damage have stopped counting altogether.
An Australian Human Rights Commission report this week confirms what working mothers already know: the modern workplace was built for atomized workers, not families. Meanwhile, the same governments that can't keep a pregnant woman on the schedule are quietly entertaining Big Tech's demands to strip creators of their copyright protections. The pattern is unmistakable — corporate convenience wins, people who do the real work lose.
The AHRC's Balancing Act report documents the mechanics. Women who disclose pregnancies face sudden performance reviews, shifts that dry up overnight, and redundancies that have nothing to do with whether the job still needs doing. Sex discrimination commissioner Anna Cody didn't mince words:
