EEOC Sues Office Concepts for Pregnancy Discrimination

Office Concepts, Inc., a Fort Wayne, Ind., business which provides machines, supplies and service to customers in northern Indiana and northwestern Ohio, unlawfully discriminated against an employee by firing her because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit it filed September 23. According to the EEOC's suit, Office Concepts fired Lynsey Burd after she informed her manager of her pregnancy. Burd's final task was to train her replacement, an office employee Office Concepts hired only in anticipation of Burd's departure.



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