To be fair, whilst a pregnant woman is VERY productive, she isn't going to be producing at work whilst on maternity leave. She might have had a lot of appointments that caused her to be late or have to leave early prior to maternity leave. If this boss is as disconnected as he appears, he might not appreciate these facts and just see 'lazy employee'.

there is no such thing as late when you are on maternity leave. that means you don't work at all and they hold your position open until the date on the leave paperwork which can be extended per dr orders. her boss is an idiot and he is the one deserves to be fired

He might notice that she is not at work and assume she is late on some days and on other days assume she is sick. He would think she was being underproductive because he noticed that not a lot (or no) finished work was coming out of her office.

exactly. it'd pretty clear that the boss is clueless and doesn't know that the OP is on maternity leave since he/she assumed that the OP was using sick days

exactly. OPs boss is pure idiot.

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I was just wondering that, maybe OP is a workaholic? I'd figure that most companies would rather a person on maternity leave just stay the hell away to avoid such confusion.

some places do something where you would go in every so often for a few hours to keep up to speed with what's going on, but i think thats only towards the end of maternity leave....

technically maternity leave is a year. and technically you can not work at all for that year.

62, technically that's only in Canada. Here it's six weeks, technically.

wow I wish I am getting bored having to sit at home and not be able to work. I can only do so many walks a day with my son otherwise he gets cranky

I was back four when my job fired me for something asinine. I didn't fight it cause I was done with their bullshit anyway.

boo breaking benjamin sucks. except for one song of theirs

no one asked for your opinion :)