A class-action lawsuit says Walmart discriminated against pregnant employees
- Walmart is facing a class-action lawsuit from two former employees who say the retailer’s management discriminated against them during their pregnancies.
- According to Rewire, the suit claims supervisors failed to make “on-the-job” accommodations for pregnant employees, forcing them to continue performing strenuous physical labor at the cost of their health.
- Otisha Woolbright, who’d worked at a Florida Walmart, reported in the complaint that she’d been hospitalized after straining to lift a 35-pound tray of rotisserie chickens.
- Before it’d gotten to that point, though, she’d told her supervisor that her doctor had warned against heavy-lifting. The supervisor allegedly told Woolbright she’d once seen a pregnant Demi Moore do a somersault on television, so Woolbright had “no excuse.”
- Woolbright said she was fired soon after for inquiring about pregnancy leave, an accommodation to which she was entitled, according to Walmart’s policy. Read more (5/16/17)
Fuck Walmart.
