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Employee’s Abortion As Basis For Discrimination Claim

By Michael Moore on June 3, 2008
Posted in Discrimination & Harassment

A company’s termination of a female worker’s employment for missing work in violation of an attendance policy is illegal discrimination if the termination decision is sufficiently related to the woman’s exercise of her right to an abortion. On May 30, 2008, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Jane Doe v. C.A.R.S.

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