NEW YORK — A Huntington Station, N.Y., engineering company violated federal law by rescinding an offer of employment to a job applicant because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has charged in a lawsuit.
According to the EEOC’s suit, in July 2008 a job applicant using a staffing firm accepted an offer from KLD Labs for an administrative assistant position. When the woman informed KLD Labs that she was three months pregnant, KLD Labs called the staffing firm to rescind the employment offer – solely because the woman was pregnant. Even after the staffing firm alerted KLD Labs that it is unlawful to reject someone for this reason, KLD Labs insisted upon rejecting her because she was pregnant and selected another candidate who was not.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. The EEOC filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (10-CV-4449) after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement out of court.
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