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CAMPAIGN group Pregnant Then Screwed backed Labour today in its push for the government to act against bosses who have illegally sent home expectant mothers on sick pay rather than full wages during the coronavirus outbreak.
Since March, pregnant women whose employers were unable to make adjustments to ensure workplace safety should have been sent home on full pay.
Pregnant women’s earnings are also used to calculate their Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), and many could get less SMP, or none at all, as a result of having previously been put on Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).
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Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
