The courts have also held that terminations because of pregnancy leave violate the act when pregnant employees were treated differently from other employees seeking temporary medical leave. The Hunter Tylo case forms another graphic example of the operation of this law. Any woman who believes that she is being discriminated against in her employment because she is pregnant has a powerful weapon in her defense in the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. No woman has to accept pressure to have an abortion in order to keep her job. Under the law, a pregnant woman can get an injunction to keep her job, can recover money damages, and in most circumstances of a successful case, can even have her attorney fees paid by her employer.
Pregnant women have many rights.
We need to know them and use them. For more information on pregnancy discrimination and your rights, see the web site of the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau . Mass. She is the mother of five children.