Legal Opinion
School Committee v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 28, 1979PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
The School Committee of Brockton (school committee) denies accrued sick leave benefits to teachers disabled by pregnancy. Aggrieved by this rule, Cynthia Zettlemoyer (complainant) brought the matter to the attention of the defendant, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (commission), which found the school committee in violation of the antisex discrimination prohibitions of G. L. c. 151B, § 4, and ordered it to cease and desist its disparate treatment of pregnancy and to pay the complainant the amount she would have received if her disability had been other than…
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