By a 7-2 vote, the justices overturned a US appeals court ruling that AT&T had violated federal civil rights law by not granting women credit for their entire pregnancy-related leaves taken before 1979. The 1979 law barred companies from treating pregnancy leaves differently from other disability leaves. Since then, maternity leave has been considered disability leave.
(Published 18 May 2009, 17:04 IST)
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