An orchid grower has paid $110,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination complaint.
Yanet Perez filed a discrimination charge after the company, upon learning that she was pregnant, forced her to take a leave and denied her requests to come back to work in 2014.
The company allegedly held a staff meeting in 2014 after Perez told her supervisor she was pregnant. At the meeting, some workers allege that they were told not to get pregnant in these terms: there should be “no more babies”; there were “too many babies coming”; and “pregnant, bye.”
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy and related medical conditions (including discrimination related to nursing).
In making the six-figure settlement, the company denied all the allegations.
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