Kenan Transport settles pregnancy discrimination lawsuit for $27,000

[Maria]

A trucking company has agreed to pay a former worker $27,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Jessica Williams, who worked at Kenan Transport’s Spartanburg, S.C., terminal, claims she was forced to take an unpaid leave of absence and was then fired for complaining after experiencing premature labor while working there.

According to court documents, Williams went into pre-term labor on Feb. 23, 2012, which the doctor was able to stop. Although she wanted to take only a few days off, she claims the terminal manager told her not to come back to work until after her baby was born. Williams claims she was then fired after stating she planned to file a pregnancy discrimination charge.

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[Tazz]

I know I am gonna catch hell, but why is it the companies problem she got pregnant? She needed time off work because of an illness ( the early labor not the pregnancy in general). Manager probably thought it was better for her health to just take time off.

No, an employer has to by law accomodate people that are incapable of doing the job because of some unexplainable reason. Just crap IMO. Everything about the EEOC is crap.

An equal opportunity would be hiring people that can do the job, not people that can do it until their life decisions interfere with their performance.

 

[revelation1911]

To much to TV and billboard lawyers.