[DOWNLOAD] "Troupe V. May Department Stores Co." by United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Troupe V. May Department Stores Co.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Release Date : January 31, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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POSNER, Chief Judge. In 1978, Congress amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on account of pregnancy: "women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work." 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(k). The Supreme Court had held in the Gilbert case that discrimination on account of sex did not include discrimination on account of pregnancy, so employers were free to exclude medical expenses relating to pregnancy and childbirth from their medical-benefits plans. General Electric Co. v. Gilbert, 429 U.S. 125, 50 L. Ed. 2d 343, 97 S. Ct. 401 (1976). The pregnancy-discrimination amendment overruled Gilbert, see Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. EEOC, 462 U.S. 669, 678, 77 L. Ed. 2d 89, 103 S. Ct. 2622 (1983), but, as the text we have quoted makes clear, goes further. See, e.g., International Union, United Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc., 499 U.S. 187, 198-99, 113 L. Ed. 2d 158, 111 S. Ct. 1196 (1991). How much further is the issue in this case.