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Gal: Boss demanded ‘preg’ approval

No buns in this oven — unless we say so!

A Jersey City woman claims her boss — former New York Mercantile Exchange head Richard Schaeffer — demanded she get his approval before getting pregnant, according to a lawsuit filed last week.

Deborah Kessler, 31, says she had worked for Schaeffer since 2009, first at his failed West Side restaurant, Harbour, and then for his Wall Street startup, Liquid Holdings, which provides investment services.

Over the summer, the married Kessler claims, her bosses “would periodically enquire of [her] if she and her husband planned on starting a family and when,” her Manhattan Supreme Court papers say.

By August, the questions became a directive as her supervisors instructed that she “not plan on having a family anytime soon unless same was first approved,” Kessler charges in the $5million lawsuit.

A lawyer for Schaeffer, who filed his own lawsuit against Kessler in November, called her claims “baseless and meritless.”

Kessler destroyed documents before leaving the company in September, Schaeffer charged.