I’m in R4 and pregnant with my first child and due early next year. Easy to hide it being at home. What should my strategy be? Tell them before the selections and hope they’d be scared to lay off someone with a “disability” or wait until after selections and surprise them? If they know, do they subconsciously lay me off because of pre-existing biases?
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Familiarize yourself with the Family and Medical Leave Act, as your doctor should also. A company like Chevron will develop a set of largely performance-based decision criteria. These criteria will be business related. Otherwise they will be difficult to defend in court. You will not be laid off because you are pregnant. If you suspect otherwise, consult an attorney.
If you have a baby shower make sure all attendees bring a lawyer and be prepared to sign an NDA.
I agree with the people saying to not say you're pregnant. However, in my opinion, the company and others have been more than accommodating in this regard. YMMV.
DONT TELL ANYONE!!!
Absolutely not! Why would they re-hire you knowing you would soon be gone for 6 months?
They have a perfect layoff cover during the reorg, so no legal claims for you - aka pregnancy discrimination.
Sit tight and hope you are selected and can use that paid leave.
Even though it shouldn’t impact selections, I truly believe there is unconscious bias against pregnant women in general, and ESPECIALLY at a time like this. I echo what some have already said - keep it to yourself until selections are over.
I knew an engineer who was 6 months pregnant in 2016 during the last layoffs. Oh yes, she got canned. I’m pretty sure it had to do with her pregnancy because she was a good employee and good at her job too. But the company knew she soon would be absent for for a spell for maternity leave and Family Leave Act time off. They canned her for so-called lack of work. What a vague term they use and the government accepts. I’d advise you to keep your pregnancy to yourself and family. The company need not be told anything. You have the advantage of working from home through the remainder of this year, well after the layoffs are done.
Mom of 2 here with 15 yrs at CVX; was pregnant with my 2nd during the last ESP. I was concerned they would let me go because of FMLA and subsequent family leave but I survived and kept my position at the time. Will never know if it was by merit or circumstance, who cares and I took the outcome, thanks. As for OP, I would not mention the pregnancy, as you got pregnant during WFH period, there would not be any "bias" to have if the company didn't see you as pregnant.
Don't say a word. Caution prevails over transparency. Its a personal event, not a business consideration. You are not obligated to say anything unless it impacts your ability to perform your duties as an employee.
It is not relevant to the selection process
Really? So we need to care about manipulating HR after the performance rating bull where they manipulated people who couldn’t see through words versus numbers ratings?
Tell or don’t tell us up to you. If you tell and get laid off I wouldn’t count on any lawsuit money or settlement outside of the severance. Disability status hasn’t stopped the company from laying off people in previous major reorganization efforts and I doubt it will now, especially for a short-term one like pregnancy.
If you’re ready to share with coworkers close to you then just share but know it probably won’t be your golden ticket to staying but I wouldn’t expect it to be the reason you were let go.
It is not the 1950’s anymore so pregnant employees are allowed to stay at work. If you want to share your excitement with your co-workers, team members, and your boss you could. It would seem very manipulative to tell HR to keep from getting laid off. Whatever you do it has to be with genuine intent.
If no one knows, don’t tell any of your work friends. If you don’t want to keep your job and you fear your EOI will get denied, make sure everyone knows about your pregnancy and any other medical issues you are dealing with that could necessitate leave next year.
Mention that you’re pregnant and you’ll up your chances of being laid off. I guarantee you of this. Chevron is in burden cutting mode, sweetie. I’m happy for you having your first child. There’s nothing more beautiful, but don’t rock the boat on this one. I truly think it will serve you no good to mention that you’re pregnant.
Your forget that this is not anonymous and a lot of these are small communities. People in certain disciplines all know each other and there is a good chance the supervisors hired in R3 are the same as now. Those are the new job owners. You don’t have to write something in a go-400 for it to be known about.
What? Are you going to list this on your GO-400? Your rep isn’t going to care whether you’re pregnant and will likely not know. Workday doesn’t have an option to check a pregnant box so that you’re safe from layoffs.