Suella Braverman was the first cabinet minister to take paid maternity leave. Now, she has told Sky News she wants to see further changes to prevent women from being discriminated against in the workplace.
'This hadn't happened before at cabinet level - I would have had to resign'
Jodie Sims had her first child eight years ago. Weeks before she returned from maternity leave, the person covering her role was promoted - without the new opening first being offered to Jodie. "There was a particular one, and when I said 'oh I'd have quite liked to have gone to that actually' and they just said 'oh we just presumed you wouldn't have been able to because of childcare', so immediately I was being excluded from things."Government data shows that more than 50,000 women a year feel they have to leave their jobs while pregnant, and 1 in 20 a year are made redundant.
The intention is to prioritise women on maternity leave over other people at risk of redundancy. But charities say some employers breach the law because they know it requires a full employment tribunal to challenge their actions - a route few women take up, having either just given birth or been away from the workplace for up to a year.
She believes there should be a wider ban on making pregnant or new mothers redundant to take the legal onus and responsibility off the women themselves.
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