Roos Moggré, presenter of EenVandaag, makes a bizarre revelation about how one of the public broadcasters has dealt with her pregnancy in the past. “Really ridiculous.”
After working for NOS for almost seven years, Roos Moggré switched to broadcaster WNL in 2015. A month after that switch she became pregnant with her daughter, and after giving birth she continued to work there for more than one and a half months before she switched to her current employer AvroTros. And something very bizarre seems to have happened at WNL…
Severely handicapped
Roos brought it up on the talk show last night Marcel & Gijs. “I have been pregnant twice. At my first job, that was quite a thing. I wasn’t on the roster after my pregnancy, so I said, ‘Am I coming back or…?’ I had a temporary contract. Then he said: ‘Yes, if your child is ehhh severely disabled, it is also a kind of risk for me.’”
What?! Host Gijs Groenteman: “Did he say that?!”
Rose: “Yes. Then I had to wait and see if I would come back.”
“Even with the TV?”
Gijs: “What kind of work did you do then?”
Roos: “It doesn’t matter.”
Gijs: “Also on TV?”
Roos: “Yes, that was also somewhere in Hilversum.”
Marcel van Roosmalen: “Also with KRO-NCRV?”
Rose: “No, not at all.”
Marcel: “Or AvroTros.”
Youth News
Gijs: “Or was it still with the Youth News?”
Rose: “Hahaha. One of the broadcasters.”
Marcel: “It is typical Youth Journal behaviour. They are friendly and there are no abuses going on there, but they are wary of whether the child will turn out to be a handicapped child. They want to know that in advance.”
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What did Roos say about it at the time? “At the time I was pretty reasonable. I did say it was ridiculous.”
It is clear that this is pregnancy discrimination. Roos has not mentioned a broadcaster or name, but it seems likely that it concerns Omroep WNL. The big question is therefore: do these reprehensible statements come from the mouth of broadcaster Bert Huisjes?
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Justine Marcella, the royalty connoisseur who was a guest at Marcel & Gijs last week, is not surprised: