Thread by @ACLU

Pregnancy discrimination has been illegal for over 40 years, but it is still happening at one well-known airline.

Today, we sued @FlyFrontier for discriminating against pregnant and breastfeeding employees. aclu.org/press-releases…

Frontier offers no paid parental leave for its employees, and regularly penalizes employees for pregnancy-related absences.

Frontier has forced pregnant employees off the job, even before their doctors said they were unable to fly.

It has refused to provide them temporary ground positions, despite having done so for others with medical conditions that rendered them temporarily unable to fly.

The situation is equally bad for employees who are breastfeeding when they return to work.

Little to no accommodations were made for them to breast pump in a clean, private place. Our clients found themselves pumping in airplane lavatories, scrubbing them with bleach beforehand.

Frontier has gone so far as to ban our clients from pumping at work—even though they work 10-12-hour days.

They have experienced pain and health issues, even mastitis, because they weren’t able to pump when they needed to. Others decided to give up breastfeeding altogether.

The decision to breastfeed is a personal one. It should not be dictated by employers or conditions at work.

Like workers in all industries, airline employees get pregnant, have babies, and breastfeed.

That Frontier thinks it can ignore those facts is shameful and frankly archaic.

It’s almost 2020, @FlyFrontier. Pregnancy and breast-feeding discrimination won’t fly.