The corporate girlies are not okay

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Lianna Smeltzer (left) and Sidney Morss (right).

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Mass layoffs including workers who are pregnant or on parental leave may seem unfair, but it's not illegal in the US — here's why

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Labor lawyers told Insider that people who are pregnant or on FMLA leave aren't automatically protected from mass layoffs.
Labor lawyers told Insider that people who are pregnant or on FMLA leave aren't automatically protected from mass layoffs.

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Gap says it's getting rid of some managers as sales slide. One retail expert likens the company to a 'lazy student' unwilling to deliver a 'better performance.'

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A Gap store in the UK.

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GM offers buyouts to most salaried employees, in a bleak warning for white-collar workers

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General Motors CEO Mary Barra.

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I got laid off in December and took my side hustle full time. Here's my advice for anyone looking to build a business after a job loss.

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Ayomi Samaraweera is the founder of the creator-economy startup Canopy.
Ayomi Samaraweera is the founder of the creator-economy startup Canopy.

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Layoffs are still historically low, so why does it feel like everyone's losing their job?

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Jim Jordan (L) speaks with recruiters from Hertz about the jobs available during the Mega South Florida Job Fair held in the FLA Live arena on February 23, 2023 in Sunrise, Florida.

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A laid-off Twitter employee reportedly lost her health insurance a week before her child was born

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An ex-Twitter employee says she lost her company health insurance a week before her child was born, per CNN.

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is bracing for a brutal recession - and says he was blindsided by the market chaos last year

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Marc Benioff.

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Meta's latest round of layoffs could hit as soon as this week, as the company tries to finalize headcount before Zuckerberg goes on parental leave: Bloomberg

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Mark Zuckerberg at the Paley Center For Media on October 25, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Paley Center For Media in 2019.

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Laid-off Twitter software engineer calls job market 'hot garbage': 'maybe I should go be a firefighter'

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Former Twitter employees are pursuing legal claims over severance packages for layoffs.

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