Pregnancy Discrimination Act

Fashion Retailer To Pay $3.5M To Button Up EEOC Probe

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights, Employment - Class Actions, pregnancy discrimination, Workplace Discrimination
Cato Corporation, a Seller of Women’s Fashions, Agrees to $3.5 Million Payment of EEOC Investigation The EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently announced that Cato Corporation was settling EEOC allegations for millions. The settlement resolves charges that Cato mistreated pregnant employees and mistr...

Police Department Settles with Two Female Police Officers in Pregnancy Discrimination Case

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights, Harassment, Retaliation, Workplace Discrimination
Our sources report that two female police officers won a pregnancy discrimination case in federal court alleging that the city’s policy toward pregnant women violated the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (“PDA”) and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”). The policy did not allow pregnant women t...

This Week Pregnancy Discrimination Strikes Again and More

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights, Retaliation, Workplace Discrimination
In a recently filed case, a California court saw an office assistant claiming that she was discriminated against due to her pregnancy and ultimately wrongfully terminated in retaliation.  The Plaintiff filed the lawsuit against both her staffing agency, Williams Lea, Inc., and the client law firm Arnold & Porter, ...

Workplace Discrimination Update; Changing Landscape of Pregnant Worker Discrimination and Employer Designation

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Workplace Discrimination
In a recent Supreme Court decision, the workplace discrimination field of Pregnancy Discrimination changed overnight. The Court in Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc. held that the burden shifting analysis of McDonnell Douglas, which has applied to disparate treatment cases since 1973, is now applicable to Preg...

Have You Been Discriminated Against By Your Employer Due to Your Pregnancy? U.S. Supreme Court is Currently Debating a Case with Enormous Consequences to Pregnancy Discrimination in the Workplace

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Workplace Discrimination
The main federal law protecting expecting parents is the Pregnancy Discrimination Act ("PDA"). Enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, PDA prohibits discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition. Discriminatory action may come in the form of hiring (or non-hir...