Rivera-Maldonado began working as a secretary for petitioner at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in October 1988. A year later she announced that she was pregnant. On February 27, 1990, she was fired, allegedly because of the pregnancy. A dismissal on such ground would constitute sex-based discrimination, in violation of the Human Rights Law (Executive Law § 296 [1] [a]).
Petitioner had previously employed a nurse/billing assistant who had taken disability leave...
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