Category Archives: Pregnancy Discrimination
Eleventh Circuit Court Of Appeals Rules That Breastfeeding Is Covered By Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA), prohibits employers from discriminating against women on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. The PDA’s amendment to Title VII clarified that discrimination based on pregnancy is a form of sex… Read More »
Pregnant Women Who Are Able To Work Must Be Allowed To Work Under Their Same Terms & Conditions Of Employment
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) forbids employers from discriminating against women on the basis of pregnancy. Having represented working women victimized by pregnancy discrimination for more than 15 years, our Central Florida employment law attorneys have learned that employers frequently try to change the terms and conditions of pregnant employees’ employment even though they… Read More »
Florida-Based Insurance Broker to Settle Claim Filed by EEOC
Brown & Brown, a Daytona Beach-based insurance brokerage firm, is now obligated to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The employment rights agency claims that the company blatantly discriminated against an employee who was pregnant, in violation of federal law. Question about maternity leave results in… Read More »
Must Employers Accommodate Pregnant Employees By Giving Them Light Duty Work?
While continuing to work after becoming pregnant, many women will confront circumstances where they are unable to perform the essential functions of their position because of the pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions. For example, a doctor may tell a pregnant employee that she should not to lift more than twenty pounds or she should… Read More »
$350k Settlement Paid to Assistant Principal Who Was Demoted after Pregnancy
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has recently settled a lawsuit against the Palm Beach County School Board based on an employee’s claim of pregnancy discrimination and retaliation. The discrimination victim, Anne Williams Dorsey, will receive $350,000 from the school board as settlement of her discrimination claims. Dorsey had been an assistant principal at… Read More »
Establishing Pregnancy Discrimination When Employer Hires The Employee & Then Fires The Employee After Learning She Was Pregnant When Hired
Standing alone, it is not unlawful for an employer to ask a job applicant whether she is pregnant when interviewing her for employment. However, if the job applicant is pregnant and not hired, evidence that the employer asked the job applicant whether she is pregnant can be used to show that pregnancy discrimination played… Read More »
EEOC Sues Daytona Beach Corporation on behalf of Victim of Pregnancy Discrimination
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently filed a lawsuit against Brown & Brown, a large insurance brokerage based in Daytona Beach. The lawsuit asserts that the company denied a woman a job due to the fact that she was pregnant. In March 2015, Nicole Purcell applied for an entry-level job with Brown… Read More »
U.S. Supreme Court Breathes New Life Into Pregnancy Discrimination Claim
In March 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court in Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc. reinstated a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against United Parcel Service (“UPS”) which the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (“Fourth Circuit”) had dismissed. At issue in Young was application of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act’s (“PDA”) mandate that employers treat a pregnant employee… Read More »
Pregnancy Discrimination Is Prohibited By Florida Law
In April 2014, the Florida Supreme Court held in Delva v. The Continental Group, Inc. that the prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex in employment practices under the Florida Civil Rights Act (“FCRA”) includes discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. In reaching this conclusion, the court reasoned that “discrimination based on pregnancy… Read More »
