{"id":76157,"date":"2015-10-05T12:35:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T16:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=76157"},"modified":"2015-10-05T12:35:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T16:35:47","slug":"settlement-reached-ups-pregnancy-discrimination-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/settlement-reached-ups-pregnancy-discrimination-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlement reached in UPS pregnancy discrimination case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>UPS has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/pregnant-woman-laid-off-by-ups-reaches-settlement-after-winning-lawsuit-at\">reached a settlement<\/a> with Peggy Young, a former employee laid off in 2006 due to her pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Young, a truck driver, was told she could not drive until after her child&#8217;s birth. UPS denied her request for an accommodation and laid her off for nine months, leading to her losing her company health insurance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In response, she filed a lawsuit alleging that UPS was engaging in pregnancy discrimination, a case supported by 23 pro-life organizations who signed an amicus brief. UPS contended it handled Young&#8217;s situation no differently than it handled other physical conditions impacting workers&#8217; abilities. This June, the US Supreme Court sided with Young 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>As Live Action News previously <a href=\"\/news\/the-pregnant-workers-fairness-act-because-choosing-life-shouldnt-cost-you-your-job\/\">reported<\/a>, cases like Young&#8217;s have inspired federal legislation, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which would require employers to make additional accommodations for pregnant employees.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the settlement have not yet been released. &#8220;We are grateful that this case has finally come to a just conclusion, and we thank UPS and its counsel for their cooperation,&#8221; Young&#8217;s attorney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPS has reached a settlement with Peggy Young, a former employee laid off in 2006 due to her pregnancy. Young, a truck driver, was told she could not drive until after her child&#8217;s birth. UPS denied her request for an accommodation and laid her off for nine months, leading to her losing her company health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[3794,3048,3047,3103,197,3045],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Settlement reached in UPS pregnancy discrimination case<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UPS denied Peggy Young&#039;s request for an accommodation and laid her off for nine months, causing her to lose her company health insurance. 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