Thread

1. hliyan · 1790442733 · focus · HN ↗

   Another important story hiding in there:

   > Six weeks before my daughter was born, my employer of 13 years laid off my entire division. Ramses had just put up the down payment on a bigger home for our growing family. My unemployment meant he was facing the mortgage payments and managing a remodel on his own, while we prepared to welcome another child.

   1. em-bee · 1790463090 · focus · HN ↗

      i thought that too, but that's not really a story, that's just normal for the US. in europe (most of the EU i am sure) and china and probably elsewhere it's illegal to lay someone off while they are pregnant. (exceptions exist, and if they apply insurance works also for the unemployed)

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.