More Women Join Pregnancy Discrimination Suit against Bloomberg

The New York times reports that 54 more women have joined a class action against the Bloomberg firm brought by the EEOC alleging pregnancy discrimination. The suit does not name Bloomberg (left) and most of the events happened after he left the firm.

The number of women involved is likely to grow, Raechel L. Adams, a lawyer for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, told Judge Loretta A. Preska. The commission has identified 478 women at the company who were on maternity leave at some point from 2002 to the present and is reaching out to them, she said. Judith Czelusniak, a spokeswoman for Bloomberg L.P., said that the company had more than 10,000 employees in 126 offices around the world and that fewer than two dozen employment lawsuits had been filed against it in the United States since its founding in 1981.

The women in the lawsuit uniformly report demotions, pay cuts, and hostility after they told the firm they were pregnant and after they took maternity leave.

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