article_snippet: Before my maternity leave I was on an upward trajectory
article_snippet: Employers should support women who come back from maternity leave
article_snippet: Coming back after having a child is hard enough without being subjected to discrimination.
article_snippet: Ms McClennan solicitor Steve Pinder, head of employment law at Liverpool-based EAD Solicitors, said: 'a case I had to fight for the sake of future generations shows women who take maternity leave are still subject to difficult working conditions and still struggle to get women who take maternity leave jobs back. '
article_snippet: TUC recently published a report called The Pregnancy Test: Ending discrimination at work for new mothers, which advised women how to cope with returning to work from maternity leave.
article_snippet: It warned that women may face changes on women return, including having been effectively demoted while women were away, and called for an end to discrimination of working mothers.
article_snippet: It said: 'Employers must learn lessons from pregnancy and maternity discrimination cases brought against Employers. '