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- <text id=91TT1667>
- <title>
- July 29, 1991: Business Notes:Labor
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- LABOR
- Maternity Suit
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Employers beware: discrimination against pregnant workers can
- be costly. AT&T agreed last week to pay $66 million in the largest
- settlement ever of a lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment
- Opportunity Commission. The money will compensate 13,000
- current and former AT&T employees for job discrimination against
- pregnant women from 1965 to 1978. The company forced the women
- to take unpaid maternity leaves, awarded those employees less
- seniority than others on disability and gave them no guarantee
- that they could return to their jobs or equivalent positions.
- "A suit of this magnitude will have tremendous ripple effects,"
- predicts Patricia Ireland, executive vice president of the
- National Organization for Women. "Every CEO who reads these
- headlines will pay attention."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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