"Workplace discrimination: when a pregnant pause becomes more long-term", 12 Jun 2015

...Later this year the Equality and Human Rights Commission will publish the results of an investigation into maternity discrimination, which campaigners expect to show a sharp rise in bullying and harassment. The last detailed work on this problem in 2005, by the Equal Opportunities Commission, found that 30,000 new mothers were forced out of jobs each year, but the charity Maternity Action estimates the number is twice as high. It argues there has been a sharp rise in discrimination since the financial crisis...Kiran Daurka, a lawyer at [Slater and Gordon]...says mothers face big hurdles in making claims against their employers. Since the coalition government introduced the fees, the number of cases of maternity discrimination has fallen by 88%...