Former Ivanka Trump clothing company exec: We had to fight her to get basic maternity leave
TOM BOGGIONI
11 OCT 2016 AT 19:19 ET
In a Facebook post, a former Chief Marketing Officer at Ivanka Trump’s clothing company broke her silence on her tenure there to state that employees at the company had to fight with the now-GOP’s presidential nominee ‘s daughter for minimal pregnancy leave.
Weeks ago the Trump campaign used the candidate’s daughter to help unveil a family leave policy in an attempt to woo females voters who have stayed away from the GOP nominee in droves. The Trump campaign went so far as to state that Ivanka Trump — a mother of three — helped develop the proposed policy. However, according to former exec Marissa Velez Kraxberger, leave for pregnant employees at Ivanka Trump’s clothing company had to fight for time off.
On Facebook, Velez Kraxberger wrote, “I have tried to abstain from writing anything amidst this terrifying political brawl that relates to my past employer, but when I recently saw a commercial with Ivanka and her father and their “maternity leave” policy I felt like I was going to be ill.”
“When I first interviewed with Ivanka I was 2 months pregnant, she called to offer me a job, which I was at the time very excited about,” she continued. “And when I asked about maternity leave she said she would have to think about it, that at Trump they don’t offer maternity leave and that she went back to work just a week after having her first child. I somehow was dumb enough to accept the job after agreeing upon having the discussion further down the road about how we would handle the time after my baby was born.”
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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/former-ivanka-trump-clothing-company-exec-we-had-to-fight-her-to-get-basic-maternity-leave/
