Hotel Operator Can’t Shake Worker’s Pregnancy Bias Claims

A former front desk agent for a hotel management company mostly defeated the company’s bid to narrow her Title VII pregnancy discrimination suit.

Christina Medina was laid off by AAM15 Management LLC at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020—a few months before her scheduled due date—but said she was promised she would be the company’s “first phone call” when they needed someone to return to work. She requested an accommodation when she was contacted about possibly returning to work in mid-April—concerned in part about a recent pregnancy-related hemorrhage—after which she wasn’t called back to work despite a ...