Hobby Lobby Allegedly Fired Employee Due to Pregnancy

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Source: RH Reality Check

When a very pregnant Felicia Allen applied for medical leave from her job at Hobby Lobby three years ago, one might think that the company best known for denying its employees insurance coverage of certain contraceptives—on the false grounds that they cause abortions—would show equal concern for helping one of its employees when she learned she was pregnant.

Instead, Allen says the self-professed evangelical Christian arts-and-crafts chain fired her and then tried to prevent her from accessing unemployment benefits.

“They didn’t even want me to come back after having my baby, to provide for it,” she says.

Her allegations—as well as those brought by other former Hobby Lobby employees—call into question the company’s public claims when it comes to protecting life and operating its business with Christian values. Additionally, they highlight a practice by which Hobby Lobby prevents its employees from seeking justice through the courts.

Read more: http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/07/29/hobby-lobby-allegedly-fired-employee-due-pregnancy

[C_U_L8R]

1. Not Christian but clearly Republican.

There's no creepiness too sleazy for GOPers looking to make a buck off other people.

[yuiyoshida]

12. THIS!

BAKA YARO (Stupid Bastards)

[davidpdx]

19. +1

싸 발

[shenmue]

2. What a bunch of mean-spirited jerks

"I have never seen a more sick group of people in this country than Republican men." - Mike Malloy

[Blue Idaho]

3. WWJS?

Where would Jesus shop? Not Hobby Lobby - that's for sure...

[IggleDoer]

9. Of course Jesus wouldn't shop there.

He was Jewish and they don't carry any Jewish products.

[Blue Idaho]

20. Bingo! nt.

[tosh]

4. Color me surprised

...NOT.

[DirkGently]

5. Hobby Lobby hateful to a woman? Suppose it's possible.

Or even likely?

[Kingofalldems]

6. Pharisees values.

[Triana]

7. Just like the American Taliban to deny birth control then punish pregnancy.

Innit?

I think so.

[raptor_rider]

8. That is bull shit!!!

At least they place I worked for, paid me for at least 8 weeks of my fmla!!! And they are too republican!!! Or was, I've not worked there for 3 years and I worked there for over 12 years!!! And I had two babies while working there!!!

[lastlib]

10. Repuglikan family values....

Uh-uh, bad for business!

[cstanleytech]

11. This is why imo they should change obamacare and add to it that

if a company wants to opt out of birth control for its healthcare they can but that they then have to provide 12 months of paid maternity leave instead.

[ErikJ]

14. I'd say 18 yrs of child support! nt

[cstanleytech]

15. I'm betting maternity leave for 12 months has a better shot at getting passed

for some reason

[ErikJ]

16. Always start high then compromise from there.

[Ilsa]

13. No sex for female employees!

Married or not!: tsk:

[blkmusclmachine]

17. Gross.

[Beartracks]

18. What did Hobby Lobby expect when it became a tool of the right?

In my understanding, some rightwing law firm or activist group went trolling for potential cases to put Obamacare on trial with, and locked onto Hobby Lobby and their supposed problem with that law. HL, of course, went on to win the case all the way at the Supreme Court while publicly claiming to be all about Christian-based business practices, etc. -- so now everything about HL's businesses practices is pretty much open to scrutiny, revealing all the usual hypocrisy one would expect to find in any rightwing media darling when examined up close. And, true to form, you don't have to look too deep; the discrepancies between the moral posturing and the sordid reality are pretty much out in the open.

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