Pregnant Then Screwed: Justice for Mothers
Pregnant Then Screwed want to appeal the high court’s decision to dismiss our legal challenge arguing that the government’s Covid-19 financial support scheme discriminates against self-employed working mothers.
On 21st January, we brought a judicial review against the Chancellor for indirect sex discrimination due to the method used to calculate the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS).
The scheme unfairly penalises self-employed women who have taken maternity leave in the last three years by including those periods in the average trading profits calculation. This has seen approximately 70,000 self-employed mothers receive a far lower SEISS payment than they should be entitled to.
Our judicial review was dismissed by the court, but we believe the judgement is fundamentally flawed and that there are strong grounds for appeal.
This is where you come in, we urgently need to raise £15,000 by March 16 2021 so we can appeal the judgement
Your money will go towards any legal costs that we may incur along the way.
If our request to appeal is rejected, or if we win our appeal, the money raised will be used to pay some of the costs incurred, and the rest will be redirected into our support services, where we will use the money to support 20 women to take their employers to tribunal in cases where they feel they have been discriminated against.
Any money raised beyond the target will go towards our helpline and vital support services which offer advice, mentoring and career support to women in the workplace.
On 21st January, we brought a judicial review against the Chancellor for indirect sex discrimination due to the method used to calculate the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS).
The scheme unfairly penalises self-employed women who have taken maternity leave in the last three years by including those periods in the average trading profits calculation. This has seen approximately 70,000 self-employed mothers receive a far lower SEISS payment than they should be entitled to.
Our judicial review was dismissed by the court, but we believe the judgement is fundamentally flawed and that there are strong grounds for appeal.
This is where you come in, we urgently need to raise £15,000 by March 16 2021 so we can appeal the judgement
Your money will go towards any legal costs that we may incur along the way.
If our request to appeal is rejected, or if we win our appeal, the money raised will be used to pay some of the costs incurred, and the rest will be redirected into our support services, where we will use the money to support 20 women to take their employers to tribunal in cases where they feel they have been discriminated against.
Any money raised beyond the target will go towards our helpline and vital support services which offer advice, mentoring and career support to women in the workplace.
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Pregnant Then Screwed
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England
The Motherhood Plan
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