UPS worker’s pregnancy discrimination suit reinstated by Supreme Court
The New York Times: The Supreme Court on March 25 revived a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against United Parcel Service Inc., saying that lower courts had used the wrong standard to determine whether the company had discriminated against one of its drivers. The case concerned Peggy Young, a UPS worker whose doctor recommended that she avoid lifting anything heavy after she became pregnant. The company refused to give her lighter duties to accommodate her and placed her on unpaid leave in 2006. Young sued under the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which requires employers to treat women affected by pregnancy the same as “other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work.”