PPG Industries to Face Jury in Pregnancy Bias, Retaliation Suit

A woman who says she was on the fast track for senior management at PPG Industries Inc. until she announced a pregnancy is entitled to take her discrimination and retaliation case to a jury, a federal judge in Pennsylvania said.

Rachel Demeio says she successfully worked from home for a year after the birth of her first child, but that PPG denied her telework request and demoted her to an hourly contracting role when she became pregnant with her second child.

Her lawsuit alleged that she’d been discriminated against based on her status as a woman with two young children. ...