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Last September three women filed a lawsuit against Mayor Bloomberg’s company, Bloomberg LP, accusing Bloomberg of being personally responsible for creating a "systemic, top-down culture of discrimination," and accusing Bloomberg LP CEO Lex Fenwick of firing two pregnant employees with this gangsta riposte: “I'm not having any pregnant bitches working for me.”
Now other 54 women have joined the lawsuit, after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] conducted interviews with 478 woman who took maternity leave from the company during the last six years. In a hearing at U.S. District Court yesterday, an EEOC attorney said that number continues to grow.
The suit accuses the company of discriminating against women by cutting pay and demoting them to less important positions when they reported that they were pregnant. The discrimination is alleged to have occurred after Bloomberg became mayor and formally relinquished his position as chief executive. But the lawsuit contends that Bloomberg is still very much involved in the company.
When asked about the case yesterday at a press conference about the city budget, the mayor said, “I have absolutely no idea” and was very annoyed, because he was taking questions about the budget, "What does this have to do with the budget?... Stick to the topic. Everybody else plays by the rules; you’ll just have to as well.” Will these unconscionable reporters ever learn to stay on message?
A Bloomberg LP spokeswoman pointed out the company, which has thousands of employees in over 100 offices globally, has only had two dozens employment-related lawsuits had been filed against it and a Bloomberg LP lawyer said the company had turned over a million pages of data to the EEOC.
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The guy's name is Lex... of course he's a villain.
(Some of you may be wondering why I didn't pass the bar exam.)
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/A94/67A
Looks like Mayor Bloomberg is up a tree. . .
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05012008/news/regionalnews/time_for_trees_to_bloom_108918.htm
And Bloomberg is Barnard's class speaker this year! All kinds of pregnant bitches in the workplace come from Barnard.
Awww I hope this isn't true... I love Bloomberg.
“I'm not having any pregnant bitches working for me.”
which is usually followed by:
“now, where my money at? bitch!”
pregnant women are anethema to productivity. Imagine having to be around a person who's carrying a bowling ball attached to her stomache, who's got headaches, nausea and general weakness and complains all day. I don't even know how people can get pregnant in this economy. The worst is poor people who have a whole bunch of kids and have to work like crazy to take care of them financially but do not spend time with them socially. those kids turn into the rapists and criminals that are the blight of society. It's a vicious cycle. I think the general rule of having kids in the city is you need a million dollars in the bank. if you don't have that, don't have kids. trust me, my sister had a kid with the whole "everything will be alright as long as we love each other" idealistic view and now she's paying for it.
What kind of woman works while pregnant? I don't get it. Don't their husbands - if they're even married - love them?
I know I put 'they're' instead of 'their'. I thought this was a Jen Chung posting, and put the mandatory errors. I was mistaken.
You know, I have to admit I know women who choose their jobs carefully when they're planning on getting pregnant, to time it so that they get pregnant as soon as they know they will be paid during their pregnancy leave, and then quit instead of coming back. Maybe women who get pregnant and really do plan on coming back (instead of swindling their employers) should reproach these dishonest women for poisoning the water for them. It's because of them that employers get bitter about it.
Personally, I would never get pregnant while working full time, as I would not be 100% productive. Pregnancy is a choice these days, not a disability. I don't really see why women think they should be cut so much slack, unless they are absolutely invaluable to their employers because of their special talents or crucial presence.
Pregnancy is a lifestyle choice, and like all other lifestyle choices, are totally subject to an employer's scrutiny and discretion. It can be a serious distraction in the workplace as so many pregnancies are really cries for affection and attention. Pregnant bitches belong in the street with the other crybabies and shitbags.