I received some great feedback on LinkedIn on last week’s post on New York’s new paid family leave law.
That law grants paid leave for the same general reasons one can take unpaid leave under the FMLA. What it does not do, though, is create a new protected class.
Indeed, discrimination based on one’s status as a parent is, in and of itself, NOT illegal.
In that case, the plaintiff, a medical sales rep and working mom, claimed sex discrimination. The alleged discrimination? Her boss made her job as working parent more difficult by reassigning all of the accounts close to her home to other reps, thus requiring her to travel further from her children.
