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Category: Pregnancy Discrimination

Supreme Court decides Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 575 U.S. ___ (2015)

 

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The Supreme Court of the United States recently issued its decision in Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc.  Vacating and remanding the Fourth Circuit’s decision, the Court concluded that the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (“PDA”) “requires courts to consider the extent to which an employer’s policy treats pregnant workers less favorably than it treats nonpregnant workers similar in their ability or...

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Pregnancy Discrimination, Quirky Question # 137

Pregnancy Discrimination, Quirky Question # 137

 

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Quirky Question # 137: Our company recently hired a woman to manage our clean room.  This job is critical to our business and we spent a great deal of time finding someone who we thought would be the right person for bringing a new product to market on a critical time path.  In addition to supervising the employees in the...

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