#maternityleave

With the holiday being in the middle of the week, does that mean we’re still expected to go in three days this week? I just got back from maternity leave, so trying to figure things out

I’m wondering if anyone has insight into how the company is handling layoffs, particularly when it comes to pregnant employees. Has anyone heard anything or know how layoffs might affect employees who are pregnant or planning to go on maternity leave?

7 i know of let go from marketing, brand, comms. videographer gone, plans to outsource to contractor. 1 on maternity leave, 1 about to go on maternity leave, 1 close to retirement. happy holidays!

I was laid off by Amazon on 10/7 after 10 years with the company. I received the notification thru an automated text message and got an email. No phone call, no personal conversation... just an automated note ending a decade of work... To make matters worse I'm currently on maternity leave caring for my newborn and still recovering from a difficult delivery.

I worked as a nontechnical Program Manager in Selling Partner Support ... and throughout my career, I always received performance reviews that exceeded expectations... with only 2 exceptions when I transitioned into new roles. For 10 years straight... My entire team was eliminated as part of a restructuring, so I don't believe I was specifically targeted because of my leave... Amazon has noted that my formal separation will take place after my FMLA leave ends, allowing me to retain my maternity benefits before receiving transition pay+ severance+ payment for unused time off.

What makes this soooo frustrating is that despite my decade of service my compensation remained below the salary range for my role because I originally started as an hourly... I had already been questioning whether returning to Amazon made any financial sense especially with the cost of childcare nowadays...

Yet, I'm trying to find the silver lining. At least, I'll have more time with my baby, and I may help my husband grow his business which he just started... Still, the timing and the impersonal way this was handled are so hard to accept. After 10 years of dedication I expected something better than a dry robotic automated message in the middle of the night (3AM????)

I'm curious whether others at Amazon were affected by the October 7 layoffs, particularly in SPS. Which teams and organizations were impacted?

How is the RTO going? Ive been on mat leave and coning back.

Just curious. I had went on a loa for maternity leave the first week of June. I come back 2 weeks ago and come to find out about the layoffs and vsp. NOBODY told me or emailed me. Nothing. I find out about it through someone on my team when I got back. I go through my work email and I see the VSP email. I wasn’t even given the chance to look at it apply. Nothing. I still have not been told anything by my PL either about it. I have no idea what’s going on aside from reading these threads. What should my next step be? Do I contact HR? I don’t understand how it would be legal for me to be out on a medical leave and not know or be told one thing.

How does being on leave impact notification if you are RIFed? Do they wait until you get back to inform you? Does the clock start while during leave or after you return to work?

This question is specifically in regards to maternity leave, so I have a firm return to work date.

Called VSap hotline to see if I can take maternity leave ( baby will be taken tomorrow due to preeclampsia) they say if I take any type of leave then I forfeit the right to get the VSP, it su-ks because I wasn’t planning to deliver early. I’m sure my position will be cut as well. I’m so sad. It seems so unfair.

I know of at least one person maternity leave that they never reached out to about the VSP. This person had no idea until a coworker reached out to them. I wonder how many people on leave were never informed?

Is this less likely? How would someone even be notified if that were the case?

Currently on leave and unsure of where things would stand.

I ask out of place of genuine curiosity. It seems lots of people on my team are chronically out on leave. It's a revolving door of people getting pregnant, mailing it in 9 months before pregnancy, using your PTO, being out for 6 months on maternity leave, mailing it in the year after your baby, and repeating the cycle. Then others are FMLA/medical leave and seemingly work like 60% of year. There's no way 1/3 of my colleagues are getting surgeries or getting cancer diagnoses. Is there something I'm missing? Is the strategy to work yourself to a bloody pulp and go on mental health leave for weeks at a time?

I feel like this place is a state-supported jobs program for Minnesotan women.

I am on maternity leave and have a private office in NY. Have they announced or will be announcing any changes to workplace excellence/ return to office? I just want to know what to expect. My manager said changes were coming but delayed - anyone know when?

I assume Dallas will shut down this week when the snow hits. Some forecasts predict twelve inches. Is everyone planning to work from home? Or since we can’t get to the office, and that’s the only place we can work, do we get a snow day off? My supervisor is on maternity leave so no info coming,, wondering what others are hearing.

I don’t think it’s legally allowed, but checking just in case.

I was on Maternity Leave and STD and it was determined that my performance was the reason I had been affected. Is this even legal? I thought that is protected by FMLA? Has anyone else who was on a LOA affected, too?

Waiting to find out whether I’ll have a job to go back to weeks after a traumatic delivery… while still in FMLA/STD… AND a colicky newborn… so fun!

The way they’re doing this RIF is crueler than usual.

What if I am on maternity leave (1 month remaining) and I get Rif’d in NJ.

Does my off boarding/warm period (90 days untill off payroll) begins right away or after FMLA/maternal leave is completed?

Did anyone else get laid off while on maternity leave? Do you know how it’s impacted?

HR was no help in getting clarity before I lost access to my email, etc. on Tuesday. I’ve only been on leave for 3 weeks, so not sure if there are legal obligations for Target to fulfill my full approved leave or if it can just end.

Curious if others in a similar situation have heard more on it.

I go on maternity leave in 6 weeks. If I’m laid off, can I negotiate my severance pay to cover the full maternity leave. The leave is already filled with Target. Are there any other protections I can ask for/negotiate on?

The largest single corporate layoff in U.S. history was IBM's reduction of its workforce by 60,000 employees in 1993.

However, the ongoing mass federal layoffs under the second Trump administration, potentially exceeding 200,000 workers and possibly reaching 300,000, could surpass this corporate record if completed. More to come in 4th Quarter 2025

Other major layoffs include Citigroup's 50,000 job cuts in 2008 and Sears' 50,000 job cuts in 1993.

Nineteen months later, tensions between Rosenbury and the Barnard community have reached a boiling point. Despite hailing efforts from her administration—like the completed renovation of the Francine A. LeFrak Foundation Center for Well-Being and the implementation of a long-overdue maternity leave policy—Rosenbury has also seen a tenure marred by suspensions and expulsions of student protesters, layoffs of 77 full-time staff members, and the faculty vote of no confidence she received in April 2024, the first in Barnard’s history.

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/09/10/rosenbury-confronts-layoffs-student-discipline-and-barnards-financial-situation-in-interview-with-spectator/

What happens if you are laid off while on leave? How do they notify you?

Patterns look strange. It almost feels like the “biggest risks” for employees are:
• Being a woman
• Turning 40+
• Taking maternity leave
• Dealing with serious illness

If that’s what our “business-driven decisions” end up looking like…

is this really a board-approved standard, or just how it played out this time?

I was recently speaking with a friend who asked me about JD who she worked under at Bain. After listening to my rant, she expressed surprise that he was focused on DEI at Nike. She said that certainly wasn't the case at Bain as evidenced by the fact that once she became pregnant she quickly learned the company had no maternity policy. I thought JD was always singularly focused on serving his troops? When I mentioned that JD was now the AD at her alma mater Stanford, she just winced.

Has F5 targeted females who just came back from their maternity leaves in the past year in this layoff ? I heard atleast 3 such incidences.