Red Seal Potato Chip Co. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

SMITH, Judge.

Plaintiff, Red Seal Potato Chip Company (Red Seal), appeals the district court judgment dismissing its petition for review of a decision by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission which held that the exclusion of pregnancy benefits constitutes an unfair and discriminatory employment practice. We reverse.

In 1975, Mrs. Rose Lowenstein filed a sex discrimination complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, naming Red Seal and the Bakery and Confectionary Workers’ Local No. 72 (the Union), as parties who had committed a discriminatory act. The complaint alleged that she had been…