DC Security Firm Reaches Deal to End EEOC’s Pregnancy Bias Suit

Security Assurance Management Inc. resolved allegations brought by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that it discriminated and retaliated against a worker because she was pregnant.

The EEOC notified Judge Rudolph Contreras of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday that the parties had reached a consent decree. Simone Cooper had claimed that Security Assurance revoked her assignment while she was pregnant, and when she returned from maternity leave denied her accommodation requests for a private lactation room and an adjusted work schedule that provided her breaks to pump. After Cooper allegedly had to call ...