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EEOC claims Glaxo laid off Pennsylvania worker due to her pregnancy.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2004
By Linda Loyd, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 5--The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged that GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. improperly fired a temporary contract employee at its Conshohocken facility last year, three months after learning that the woman was pregnant.
In a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, the EEOC said that Judith StaRomana, 25, of Pottstown, was working for Aerotek Scientific LLC, a temporary employment agency, when she was told she was being laid off by Glaxo because of her pregnancy.
Glaxo, which has a U.S. headquarters Philadelphia, didn't have an immediate comment.
As more companies depend on temporary and contract workers to fill...
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