Does unmarried childbirth count as employment discrimination?

Recently, some readers have reported that married childless women have repeatedly hit a wall in the process of job hunting because employers are afraid that they will get pregnant and have children soon after they join the job, which will bring a series of work problems. Obviously, this is a kind of employment discrimination. In the forthcoming Employment Promotion Law, a chapter on "Fair Employment" is specially set up, which clearly says "no" to employment discrimination. However, because these clauses are too principled and lack maneuverability, job seekers still face many difficulties in practice. In this regard, the reporter conducted an investigation. The performance won, but it was rejected. "I didn't expect my wife to interview three units in a row because she was married and childless." Recently, Mr. Wang told reporters indignantly. Mr. Wang's lover Xiaowen (a pseudonym) is a junior college student majoring in business English, who resigned from his former unit last year. Xiaowen thinks that he is young, graduated from an English college and has work experience, so it should not be difficult to find a better job. Unexpectedly, the status of "married and childless" made her rejected several times. Xiaowen told reporters that for the first time, a company recruited two secretarial staff, and she and the other two entered the interview at the same time. Before the interview, she should fill out a resume, one of which is "marriage and childbirth" Xiaowen found that except that she was married and childless, the other two were unmarried, and the other two were married and educated. Finally, in the case of winning academic qualifications and achievements, Xiaowen was eliminated. She was puzzled, so she asked through her acquaintances. The boss replied: "The company has a high work intensity, and a radish is a pit. If you are newly married, you will definitely have children in two years. Who are you looking for to replace you? " For this explanation, Xiaowen and his lover feel speechless. Since then, Xiaowen has asked acquaintances to introduce two companies. During the interview, the employer was very concerned about whether she had any plans to have children in the past two years. Xiaowen said to think about it, but was politely refused. In this way, after being unemployed at home for nearly half a year, Xiaowen found a job with the help of friends. It is not uncommon for recruiters to ask about marriage and childbirth. A few days ago, the reporter also saw a post posted by a netizen in the "workplace life" forum of a website. The post reads: "I am a young woman who got married soon. My old unit was laid off because of poor management, and I was among them. I thought it was no problem to find a job with my undergraduate education and skills, but I didn't expect to encounter "employment discrimination". During the interview, the recruiter asked me a question at random: "Are you married?" I replied, "It's over." "Do you have children?" "Not yet. "Recruiters immediately let me go home and wait for news. I knew this interview would definitely be "yellow" because I am married and have no children. Married and childless women find it more difficult to find a job. In the interview, the reporter found that married childless women have now become "difficult households" seeking jobs. Shen Yuee, the employment agency of Zhabei District Federation of Trade Unions, told the reporter that at least 60% to 70% of the employers she contacted explicitly requested unmarried women who had just graduated or married women who had given birth. Unless there is a shortage of talents such as professional skills, it is difficult for married and childless female job seekers to find jobs. Shen Yuee said: "Why don't employers use married and childless job seekers? There is a simple reason. I am mainly afraid that these female employees will take time off to go home and have children after a few days without work, which will have a direct impact on their posts. On the one hand, they can't do heavy work or work overtime. On the other hand, they have to change staff during maternity leave, and the unit must pay more labor costs. " Therefore, some "married childless" female job seekers often fill in "married childless" in the column of "marital status" in order to cater to the taste of employers. In order to prevent young women from having children together, some enterprises even explicitly stipulate in their labor contracts that female employees cannot have children within one year after entering the enterprise, while others limit a certain number of births every year. Married and childless women have repeatedly hit a wall in job hunting, and some insiders believe that this is also a typical employment discrimination. In order to effectively curb the increasingly widespread employment discrimination, the upcoming Employment Promotion Law has specially set up a chapter on "fair employment", which clearly says "no" to all kinds of employment discrimination. For example, Articles 26 and 27 of the Employment Promotion Law clearly stipulate that employers and employment agencies shall provide equal employment opportunities and fair employment conditions to workers when engaging in employment intermediary activities, and there shall be no employment discrimination; The state guarantees that women enjoy equal labor rights with men. Except for jobs or posts that are not suitable for women as stipulated by the state, the employer shall not refuse to hire women or raise the employment standards for women on the grounds of gender. When employing female employees, the employer shall not stipulate restrictions on the marriage of female employees in the labor contract.