Gonzales v. Marriott, 142 F. Supp. 3d 961 (2015)

The plaintiff was a full-time accountant for the Los Angeles Airport Marriott when she arranged to be a gestational surrogate, and was due to give birth in April of 2014. When the child was born, the plaintiff used her three work breaks to pump breast milk and send it to the child’s family. After two weeks of shipping the milk to the family, the plaintiff continued to lactate for personal health reasons and donated the milk to women’s organizations for mothers who could not breastfeed. The Los Angeles Airport Marriott then discontinued her two extra breaks arguing that she was not disabled and not feeding a child at home. The plaintiff sued claiming disparate treatment, sex stereotyping, and failure to make reasonable accommodation to for a condition related to pregnancy. The Los Angeles Airport Marriott motioned to dismiss, and the court found that there was a question of fact on all claims and allowed the case to proceed.
 

Topics

• Employment discrimination

Geographical location

• North America
• United States
• California

Keywords

• breastfeeding
• pregnancy
• reasonable accommodation

Year

• 2015

External URL

• Gonzales v. Marriott, 142 F. Supp. 3d 961 (2015)

Court

• United States District Court for the Central District of California

Type

• Domestic Case Law

Jurisdiction

• United States