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Ex-worker files suit against Wal-Mart

Ex-worker files suit against Wal-Mart
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006




A Fayetteville woman filed a federal lawsuit Friday against her former employer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., over claims that supervisors failed to meet her medical needs during a problematic pregnancy.

The lawsuit, filed in U. S. District Court in Fayetteville, claims Maggie Collins’ former bosses told her she could not use a stool at work because “it did not look good.”

Collins, who had worked for the company since July 2004, suffered a miscarriage in 2005 and was having problems with a second pregnancy when she asked her boss if she could sit on a stool do to her work. She was a customer service manager at Wal-Mart Store No. 144 in Fayetteville.

“Ms. Collins was told that she could either stand and work or leave,” attorney Judith Rebecca Pratt Hass wrote in the lawsuit.

Collins quit her job in late 2005 “rather than endanger the health and life of her unborn child,” the court filing said.










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