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| U.S. settles civil rights lawsuit |
| By Mid-Hudson News Network |
| Published: 05/23/2008 |
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NEW YORK – Female employees at the state’s Sing Sing Prison in Westchester County have scored a victory as the US District Court has reached a settlement with the state Correctional Services Department over allegations of pregnancy discrimination. The State Corrections Department had determined that a female employee who gives birth to a child should be transferred from workers’ compensation leave benefit status, for which she was otherwise determined to be eligible, to maternity or child-rearing status, with a far lower level of benefits. The case involved 23 female corrections officers, former and present, at Sing Sing Prison, who filed coordinated civil rights lawsuits. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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