Baby Clothing Brand BLASTED For Firing Employee Who Asked To Work Remote While Newborn Was In NICU!
21.01.2024 - 01:05
/ perezhilton.com
A baby clothing company is under fire for denying an employee’s request to work from home while she cared for her premature newborn in the NICU.
According to a GoFundMe, Marissa Hughes and her husband Rawley had spent the past three years trying to have a baby of their own, attempting everything from in vitro fertilization, intrauterine insemination, and enduring pregnancy losses, and a near-fatal surgery where Melissa briefly clinically died. The couple even served as foster parents throughout the process.
When Melissa and Rawley realized they needed to explore other options to have a family, they turned to adoption in October. Two months later, they received a call: There was a baby available for adoption in a neonatal intensive care unit at an El Paso hospital nine hours away from their Dallas home. Per the fundraiser page, their son Judah was “born at 22 weeks gestation and barely over a pound,” so he wouldn’t be discharged from the hospital until the end of March.
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Wanting to be by her new baby boy’s side (understandably), Marissa asked her employer, Kyte Baby, if they would give her time off. The company gave her two weeks of paid leave. When Hughs asked if she could work remotely following that, they denied the request. She begged them to reconsider. But according to a since-deleted video from her sister Kailee Moeller, the brand told Marissa she would be giving up her job if she stayed at the hospital. And of course, Marissa ended up staying with her little guy.
Having a child in the NICU is already hard enough on a parent. And the fact that Marissa was still trying to do her job while being in the NICU? She was being very accommodating
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