Our employee law firm has successfully handled many pregnancy discrimination lawsuits. In recent years firm founder, Karl Gerber, won three jury trials in which the juries found pregnancy discrimination. He also won a binding arbitration in which pregnancy discrimination was found.

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Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuits

Reinstatement Rights Following Pregnancy Related Leaves Of Absence

Pregnant women must be reinstated to the same position they had before maternity leave, or a comparable position. Employers actually have the burden of proving why the employee was not reinstated following their leave of absence for pregnancy related conditions. Basically, the employer must show by a preponderance of the evidence the employee would not have had the job upon coming back to their job had they never been pregnant and received the job accommodations they received for their pregnancy.

Typical scenarios involving a failure to reinstate a woman include claims of layoffs, job eliminations, or discoveries of poor job performance while the employee was on leave. Our workplace pregnancy discrimination lawyers have dealt with all of these scenarios, and won.

Harassment On The Basis Of Pregnancy

Firm founder, Karl Gerber, won a pregnancy harassment case before a Los Angeles jury, and his client was awarded punitive damages when her supervisor told her:

Firm founder, Karl Gerber, won a pregnancy harassment case before a Los Angeles jury, and his client was awarded punitive damages when her supervisor told her:

1. She got pregnant at the wrong time;
2. When the employee showed her supervisor a doctor’s note prescribing a 10 pound lifting restriction the supervisor told the pregnant employee
3. she would have to learn how to do all types of work while pregnant or she would be a useless woman and her baby would be useless;
4. notwithstanding a doctor’s note the supervisor told the pregnant employee to throw out a piece of sweat bread and otherwise would not allow her to eat when she felt the need due to her pregnancy;
5. The supervisor asked who the father of the baby was and suggested the employee should not have the baby perhaps because she was not married;
6. repeat refusals to abide by pregnancy related lifting restrictions;
7. The supervisor said, "What is the point of you working if you won't be doing the work. If your baby gets miscarried, that's your problem;" 7) When she asked numerous supervisors if she could do her work while seated she was told she would have to wait for an answer;
8. A subordinate supervisor drew a zero and said that was what the pregnant employee was while she had pregnancy related work restrictions.



The above Los Angeles jury trial is an example of a case in which the employer refused to abide by pregnancy related medical restrictions. Because the case settled for a confidential sum after the jury found punitive damages, we cannot share its value.




In a similar pregnancy harassment case in which a warehouse worker was asked to violate her pregnancy related restrictions, Karl Gerber, obtained a settlement of approximately $333,668 in present cash value.




Workplace Pregnancy Discrimination Case Results:

1. VASQUEZ jury verdict on PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION


2. $333,668 present cash value for settlement for pregnancy harassment of a Los Angeles warehouse worker


3. $138,195 present cash value of settlement for a Hollywood advertising executive generally mistreated due to pregnancy


4. $127,138 present cash value for a staffing agency employee whose job was not held open while she was on pregnancy leave

Call (818) 783-7300 for a confidential confidential conversation with an experienced pregnancy discrimination law firm who has actually prevailed in trial and arbitration in numerous pregnancy discrimination cases.

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