Pregnancy discrimination now more subtle and harder to prove, say experts

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SINGAPORE - For expectant mothers, announcing their pregnancy is usually a happy occasion.

But this was not the case when a newly-promoted Ms Y. H. Chia, 31, told her former employer her second child was on the way in June 2018.

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