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Pregnant Teacher Fired

Salt Lake City, UT: (Apr-02-08) The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought a lawsuit against Reid School, a private school in Salt Lake City, alleging that it discriminated against one of its employees because she was pregnant. The commission's lawsuit claimed that the school had discriminated against preschool teacher Tawna Pippin, a three-year employee, when it fired her and failed to renew her 2002-03 teaching contract after she became pregnant.

Sources close to the case stated that the two sides had reached a settlement agreement, in which Reid School has agreed to pay Pippin $34,500 to resolve the pregnancy discrimination allegations. Apart from the monetary payout, the agreement stipulated that the school provides training for employees regarding sex discrimination, pregnancy discrimination and workers' rights under the federal law Title VII a law that was part of the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act that forbids discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender and national origin. [DESERET MORNING NEWS: PRIVATE SALT LAKE SCHOOL SETTLES BIAS LAWSUIT]

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