السبت، 9 ديسمبر 2017

New South Wales closes Australia's last loophole allowing pregnant women to be sacked

Coalition state government to abolish sections of Anti-Discrimination Act, as Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi had urged

New South Wales will close a loophole allowing employers to sack a woman who knew she was pregnant when hired.

The NSW attorney general, Mark Speakman, and minister for women, Tanya Davies, announced on Sunday they would abolish two subsections in the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977.

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