An investigation by Four Corners has heard from more than 100 women who say they faced discrimination in Australian government departments after falling pregnant or having children, with allegations of demotion, refused flexible work and redundancy. The ABC program, The Pregnancy Penalty, features a former counterterrorism executive who took her case to the Fair Work Commission after the Department of Home Affairs refused to let her return to a four-day compressed week.
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Fair Work Commission
Australia's workplace relations tribunal