Pregnancy discrimination filings in federal court continued to rise in 2020, and the ongoing impacts of Covid-19 and the economic downturn are likely to exacerbate that trend in the coming years.
The number of federal pregnancy discrimination lawsuits has been rising steadily over the last five years, with claims in 2020 up around 67% from 2016. And despite many factors that should have driven filings down in 2020, an analysis of Bloomberg Law Dockets found 16% more federal pregnancy discrimination claims filed in 2020 than in 2019. In fact, this was the largest jump in federal filings in the past ...