Small business owners say they should be exempt from laws that prohibit discrimination against pregnant women.

The business owners are responding to the Fair Work Ombudsman’s move to pursue pregnancy discrimination claims on behalf of women.

The Ombudsman has just lodged its first pregnancy discrimination case in the Federal Court, and while it has been illegal for a quarter of a century to discriminate against pregnant workers, the Ombudsman is tipping that there will be a surge in claims now that women do not have to take the cases on their own.

But small business owners say this sort of regime imposes an impossible burden them.

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Small business wants exemption from pregnancy discrimination laws