Ledvance, Ex-Worker Settle Paternity Leave Bias Lawsuit

Ledvance LLC reached a settlement with a former product manager who said the company made it difficult to take leave after the birth of his child, and unjustly terminated him.

Ahmed Eissa said he faced immediate resistance in Oct. 2019 to his plan to take twelve weeks paternity leave as offered by Ledvance, according to court documents from the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. After learning Eissa planned to travel to Egypt during that leave, his supervisor suggested “a part-time, 20-hour per week arrangement with a proportionate decrease in pay,” the former product manager said.

But Ledvance ...