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title: "Is it Legal to Terminate a Pregnant Employee?"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/92b72c1c-b9be-4dec-bf9f-24564e33952a
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/is-it-legal-to-terminate-a-pregnant-employee-2707740
category: "General"
published: 2018-09-04T21:16:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:51:15.280Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/97765f34d2fee7c726477b8c06a5ae91248.jpg
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# Is it Legal to Terminate a Pregnant Employee?

**TL;DR:** Carrie Luxem provides guidance on whether it is legal to terminate a pregnant employee. Carrie Luxem is a frequent keynote speaker on HR and leadership topics.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-09-04. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/is-it-legal-to-terminate-a-pregnant-employee-2707740).*

## Story

Is it legal to fire a pregnant employee?

Carrie is a frequent keynote speaker on HR and leadership topics and regularly conducts employee training and leadership development workshops as well. She is the author of the recently published book, Restaurant Operator's HR Playbook: Your Hands-On Playbook for Finding, Hiring, and Developing Leaders and Implementing Organized People Systems and has been featured in Entrepreneur , Restaurant News , Pizza Today and Independent Restaurateur .

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- General (sector)
- Entrepreneur (publication)
- leadership topics (topic)
- hr guidance (topic)
- pregnancy termination (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/is-it-legal-to-terminate-a-pregnant-employee-2707740). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/92b72c1c-b9be-4dec-bf9f-24564e33952a).