Case Summary

4892 In an action for pregnancy discrimination in which defendant claimed plaintiff was terminated for falsifying time records, plaintiff's rebuttal evidence that one of her supervisors told her she was pleased with plaintiff's work and thought plaintiff should get a raise; that the supervisor who fired her never gave her a reason or said anything critical about her job performance; that the supervisor responsible for firing plaintiff was a lesbian who frequently expressed contempt for heterosexual women, especially pregnant ones, and gave preference to other gay and lesbian workers; along with declarations by four of defendant's former employees who stated they were fired soon after becoming pregnant, knew of someone who was told she was being fired because she was pregnant, and knew of dishonest employees who did falsify time cards but were not fired; was sufficient to raise questions of fact about whether defendant's proffered reason for terminating plaintiff was pretextual and therefore was sufficient to defeat defendant's motion for summary judgment

JOHNSON v UNITED CP FOUNDATION (Pregnancy Discrimination) 173 CA4 740 [See: GovC 12900 etseq; Guz v Bechtel 24 C4 317, T/AT 11/00; Hersant v Dep't 57 CA4 997, T/AT 10/97; King v UPS 152 CA4 426, T/AT 7/07]