Pregnant woman fired for taking maternity leave and, seriously?!

A pregnant woman was told that she no longer had a job because she would have to be taking maternity leave soon.

Kameisha Denton was discriminated against this week when she received a message from her place of work saying that there would be no more shifts for her because she had failed to disclose that she was pregnant. She shared the text to Facebook asking if this was "allowed." KIRO-TV reports that the message read:

"Hello I am sorry to inform you that it's not going to work out with Jersey Mikes. "It's not a good time for us to have someone who is leaving for maternity leave in a few months anyways. You also failed to tell me this during your interview. "Good luck."

Denton told the station that she was "shocked" to have received the message. She had previously told her boss that she would need four weeks off in December to have her baby. The mum-to-be then realised that she hadn't been assigned any upcoming shifts. Denton, from Washington State, was encouraged to sue the company by many people who saw her post online. The law there states that it is "unfair practice" to dismiss a person from a job due to childbirth or pregnancy. The owner of the store said that the employee who sent the message and fired Denton should not have done so and that the dismissal “...should have never ever happened. It's our policy to treat everybody equally." The employee is question since resigned from their position and Denton was offered her old job back. She has since found work elsewhere.