My wife joined Alchemy solutions 2 months back. They recruited her on contract basis for position in cognizant.
Now she is pregnant and when she told them same she is asked to be on bench for a month without pay. After one month they will release her from job.
When offer was given policies were not mention in there. In appointment letter it has two clauses related to releaving from company.
1) Alchemy may terminate this agreement for cause, by providing 1 month notice in writing to the Employee. The
Employer may, at its discretion, pay remuneration of in lieu of some or all of this notice period.
2) Alchemy Software Solutions’ Bench Period (unpaid) would be for a period of 30 days in case of a release from
the client project.

My wife signed appointment letter after joining.

Now she asked to be on bench for one month. It look like proper planning to ask her to leave without paying.