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In a press release issued on Monday, the EEOC claims that an employer violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it unlawful to discriminate based on pregnancy, when it failed to hire an applicant as a hair braider because she was pregnant. They supposedly refused to hire her because, wait for it, they already had a pregnant employee.
According to the suit, a pregnant woman applied for a hair braider position and performed a skills test with satisfactory results, but then the company’s owner found out that she was pregnant.
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