Hospital Worker Gets Some Pregnancy-Linked Bias Claims Revived

An ultrasonographer can try again to show the Michigan hospital where she worked discriminated against her because she was pregnant and interfered with her protected medical leave, a federal appeals court said Thursday.

The worker demonstrated there are factual disputes as to whether William Beaumont Hospital chose her for a layoff because of her pregnancy and withheld details about another role because she took time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in an unpublished opinion. However, the court declined to revive the worker’s disability bias and retaliation ...