Tell the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
"Investigate Hobby Lobby's discriminatory treatment of pregnant employees."
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Hobby Lobby's plan: we won't cover birth control AND we won't help you if you become pregnant--in fact, we'll fire you.
That's what happened to 32-year-old Felicia Allen, a cashier at a Mississippi Hobby Lobby store--and four months' pregnant. She asked for unpaid time off to give birth. Allen's request was granted, but when the time came to take her leave, Allen was instead fired, leaving her unemployed just weeks away from giving birth.
Then her application for rehire just three weeks after her child's birth was denied. Then when Allen applied for unemployment benefits, Hobby Lobby's corporate executives even lied to the unemployment agency to prevent her from getting any benefits. How evil can you get?!
It's clear--Hobby Lobby's business practices are explicitly anti-woman. Its nearly 20,000 employees are denied birth control coverage and now even the time to care for their newborn. But even though the Supreme Court sided with Hobby Lobby in its decision to deny birth control coverage, women aren't standing down. Hobby Lobby's discriminatory treatment of pregnant employees is illegal, and if thousands of us speak up, Hobby Lobby will be subject to federal scrutiny and even massive fines--not to mention exposing Hobby Lobby's extreme anti-woman ideology.