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<text id=91TT1667>
<title>
July 29, 1991: Business Notes:Labor
</title>
<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>
</body></article>
</text>