Ex-Salesforce employee says she was 'washing baby bottles' on maternity leave when she learned she was laid off

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Former Salesforce employee McKenzie Gregory (not pictured) wrote on LinkedIn that she found out she was laid off while on maternity leave.

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I was jealous of people who were laid off from Big Tech and posting about it since I got laid off from a startup and felt invisible. Then I realized shame drove my resentment.

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Hanna Matyiku-Nuñez feeding baby with bottle.
In 2021, Hanna Matyiku-Nuñez was laid off from her job at a tech startup while on maternity leave.

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Laid-off Google employees may not get paid out for approved maternity or medical leave as severance terms deadline looms

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Google announced in January that it was cutting 6% of its workforce, and those affected have been urging execs to take another look at their severance terms.

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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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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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A Google recruiter on maternity leave said she found out she was laid off while feeding her 3-week-old baby at 4:30 a.m.

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Google Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai attends a session of the fourth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, December 3, 2017.
Google announced on January 20 that it was laying off 12,000 staff, or around 6.4% of its workforce.

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