School Committee v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

We transferred this case to this court on our own motion to consider arguments made by the school committee of Brockton (school committee) alleging error in a decision of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (commission). The commission accepted the decision of a hearing commissioner,2 which found that the school committee had engaged in unlawftd sex discrimination in violation of G. L. c. 151B, § 4 (1) (1994 ed.), by denying accrued sick leave benefits to teachers disabled by pregnancy, and awarded damages and interest to the harmed teachers. The commission itself awarded…