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One of the nice things about being an adult is we generally don’t need to ask anyone’s permission to go to the bathroom. It’s a basic necessity that we take
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or granted. A woman recently turned to Reddit’s legal advice subreddit with a disturbing question: Can her employer fire her for needing more bathroom bre
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ks while pregnant? She’s pregnant, works in a call center, and the company has threatened her with termination if she takes more than 10 minutes’ worth of bathro
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m breaks in a shift. She wrote: I’m pregnant (with complications) and currently employed by a large credit union in Colorado.