A.T.&T. settles bias suit for $66 million; a nationwide effect is seen for women in the workplace

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The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agrees to a $66 million settlement of a case against AT&T that involves job discrimination in pregnancy. The case, which was originally filed in 1978 on behalf of 13,000 workers, challenged the maternity leave policies of Western Electric Inc, then the telephone equipment manufacturing unit of AT&T. Those policies included forcing pregnant women to take early maternity leave, taking them back at lower-skill and lower-paying jobs, not holding jobs for them as they did for men having surgery, limiting credit of time toward seniority. The settlement is the largest ever in a case handled by the EEOC; it includes about $6 million for legal costs. Payment should begin in 1992. The National Organization for Women views the agreement as an important advance, saying that rights for pregnant workers are now more adequately protected.

Political organizations, Admin. of social & manpower programs, Cases, T, Women, Sex discrimination against women, Discrimination, United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Organization for Women, Employee Relations, Western Electric Company Inc.

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More than labor amity at A.T.& T.: the once-combative bargaining partners are plotting the company's future

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About 1,000 members of AT&T's work force met the week of Mar 8, 1993, to consider the company's future. Attendees included representatives of management and members of AT&T's two unions, which are the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. AT&T wants to change its corporate culture, and labor-management cooperation achieved by means of 'worker empowerment' is part of the company's plan. AT&T's unions look forward to a strengthened company commitment to employment security and training. Resistance to change is strongest from lower- and middle-management because managers perceive themselves as having the most to lose if there is a convergence of blue-collar and white-collar concerns.

Electronic computers, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Human resource management, Column, Employee benefits, Communications Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Personnel, Personnel Management, Conferences and Meetings, Unions

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