Topic: Pregnancy News - High Court to Take Up Pregnancy Leave Case (Washington Post)

Hulteen, 74, contends that her employer, Pacific Bell — now AT&T — did not properly weigh her pregnancy leave into her retirement and other benefits. The case centers on whether women who took pregnancy leave before 1979, when the Pregnancy Discrimination Act went into effect, should be entitled to the benefits the law provides. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act, an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy and allows those on maternity leave the same coverage as other medical leave. AT&T changed its policy when the act went into effect, effectively treating pregnancy leave the same as temporary disability leave. The court ruled in August that pregnancy leave taken before the discrimination act must be treated the same as disability leave. Communication Workers of America , that workers were not entitled to retroactive seniority credit for pregnancy leave that occurred before the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. read more

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