New York City Employment Lawyer

The United States Supreme Court recently agreed to review a case that centers on whether women who took pregnancy leave before 1979, when the Pregnancy Discrimination Act went into effect, should be entitled to all the protection and benefits the law provides.  Noreen Hulteen, now age 74, missed 240 days of work after her daughter […]

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NutriSystem recently agreed to pay $82,500 to a woman allegedly fired in a pregnancy discrimination case.  In November 2006, Robyn Linenberg was terminated three weeks after she told the company she was pregnant.  Linenberg had also recently been placed in a leadership training program.
Because of the outcome of the lawsuit, NutriSystem, a weight loss company, has […]

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