Woman wins $349,000 in pregnancy bias lawsuit - Brief Article

Jet, Jan 25, 1993

A Long Beach, Calif., woman who was laid off from her job with a financial services company in 1991 while she was seven months pregnant, recently was awarded $349,000 in lost earnings, damages and attorney's fees by a panel of arbitrators from the securities industry.

Leslie Smith, 33, filed a lawsuit against Great Northern Insurance Annuity, a subsidiary of the Weyerhaeuser Co., after being told in May 1991 that she was going to be laid off because the company was decreasing its staff in the Long Beach office. Smith was the only person laid off.