Rights | Ex-Tesla employee claims she was fired for taking maternity leave

A former Tesla employee alleged that she was fired after notifying management of her planned maternity leave – The Guardian reports.

The employee found out in July 2018 that she was pregnant, and informed management that she intended to take maternity leave in February 2019.

However, after working at the Tesla Giga factory in Nevada and being promoted to a supervisor role just a few months into her employment, in December last year, Devon Beccera was fired from her role.

“Nevada is a right-to-work state, so they didn’t need any sort of reason for firing me, but it was very convenient to fire me two weeks before Christmas and about 50 days before my maternity leave started,” she told The Guardian.