According to court documents, Associate Vice President Judith Selvage told employee Cassandra Crawford that she had been passed over for a promotion because she had taken maternity leave “for a while” and had instead awarded the promotion to a male colleague.
Judge Paula Xinis said Ms. Selvage was the decision maker in the situation and that Ms. Selvage’s explanation for Ms. Crawford not receiving the promotion “came in close temporal proximity” to her decision to promote a male colleague. The judge ruled the comment could be evidence of sex bias under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Similar evidence allegedly presented at court also illustrated Ms. Selvage’s pattern of discriminating against women who took maternity leave. Ms. Selvage allegedly admitted to waiting to demote another female employee until she returned from maternity leave because she “wouldn’t touch the worker with a ten-foot pole while she was pregnant,” according to the article.
Both the EEOC and Dimensions Healthcare System declined to comment on the ruling, according to the article.
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