Does FMLA cover contract workers?

PotomacSt

I'm not one, but I was curious. A friend just announced her pregnancy and she's due in October. She's currently in the first year of a two-year teaching contract for a university. Her academic department is very small and they needed someone to fill in when a tenured prof became ill and while they work on replacing him.

I know that for workers who are not full-time, FMLA covers you as long as you have been there 1 year and worked at least X-number of hours. But does that apply to contract workers? Could they just cancel her contract for the second year when they find out she's pregnant?

I know it's not my problem, but she's not financial/legal minded like I am, and I'm worried she hasn't even thought of this and will think everything's great until she suddenly finds out she has no job