GEL REPRESENTS CBP OFFICERS & AG SPECIALISTS IN PREGNANCY EEO CLASS ACTION
While it may take a village to raise a child, it often takes a community of aggressive and skilled advocates to represent federal employees. What one does not or refuses to see, another understands instantly and acts with vision. That is what is happening at Customs and Border Protection where the high-profile Gilbert Employment Law firm in DC has stepped up to help some abused CBP employees.
The firm’s lawyers went to court where a judge found they “have submitted sufficient probative evidence that the agency subjected pregnant employees to a policy that distinguished pregnancy from other short-term impairments and involuntarily placed them on temporary light duty because they were pregnant without regard to whether they can continue to perform the essential position of record”. The class includes all CBP “Officers and Agriculture Specialists and were placed on temporary light duty pursuant to CBP’s Temporary Light Duty Policy due to their pregnancy, at any time after July 18, 2016”. Check out more details about this case on Gilbert’s web site. And link over to other stories about private attorneys who have stepped in to help CBP employees.
Just wondering why the union representing the CBP or other federal employees didn’t file formal actions or a lawsuit, rather than the Chapter or employees going to an outside law firm for help?