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Dumb idea of the month award: ‘Maternity Projection’ charts for female staff

01/24/2014

A New York company took career planning a bit too far when it actively tried to predict which female employees would become pregnant and miss work. It created a “Maternity Pro­­jec­­tion” chart to determine how soon each female employee was likely to have a child. A federal court green-lighted a jury trial, saying the chart was enough evidence of bias.

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