SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Regulators say ambulance company American Medical Response will settle a discrimination lawsuit after it refused to provide its pregnant Spokane employee a temporary reprieve from heavy-duty work.
AMR will pay $162,000 to a paramedic to resolve a lawsuit brought by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It alleged that rather than offer her light-duty work, the company told her to take unpaid leave for the final days of her pregnancy.
An AMR spokesperson declined to comment on the settlement.