Employer Had Nondiscriminatory Reason for Terminating Worker

An employer defeated a pregnancy discrimination suit by showing that it had actually fired the plaintiff because she had coached a coworker on how to skip work, the 4th District Court of Appeal concluded. Case: Herrera v. CU Cooperative Systems, No. E052869, 1/29/13, unpublished.Facts: Roxanne Herrera worked as a fraud supervisor for CU Cooperative Systems, which investigated unauthorized uses of ATM cards. She sued her former employer, alleging that it wrongfully terminated her because she was pregnant. Herrera contended that the employer denied her pregnancy disability leave by terminating h...