JPMorgan Chase and PayPal each failed to accommodate and fired a woman who was pregnant and set to take maternity leave, the women charged in separate lawsuits filed in federal courts in Illinois and Arizona.
Fadia Salah’s discharge from her position as a relationship banker at JPMorgan’s Hickory Hills, Ill., branch came just two weeks before she was to begin her maternity leave. It followed complaints from her branch manager that her time off would leave the branch short-staffed and months of his pressuring her to quit, she alleges in her Jan. 23 court complaint.
The branch manager monitored her ...
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