Teacher fired for premarital sex?

[agzg]

Wow. That's incredible jackassery and I hope she wins her suit.

ETA: Where does it say she signed a contract? Unless it was explicit in her employment contract, I don't think the school has a leg to stand on. Furthermore, federal discrimination laws trump "contracts" in many ways.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by agzg

Wow. That's incredible jackassery and I hope she wins her suit.

ETA: Where does it say she signed a contract? Unless it was explicit in her employment contract, I don't think the school has a leg to stand on. Furthermore, federal discrimination laws trump "contracts" in many ways.

Let me find another story, it was a private Christian school and I was under the impression there was a behavioral contract. However if it was only the clause on the employment application, well I still think she may be still be stuck.

Also I don't think there's anti-discrimination law that covers "sex outside of marriage" and she wasn't fired because she was pregnant but because she got pregnant.

Any teacher at the Catholic schools in my hometown who would have been pregnant out of wedlock was put on a leave of absence (at a minimum, I don't know that no one was fired) for that time. I don't like that either, but it's a private school.

ETA: First story I could find that mentioned it: Teacher Fired

Sources inside the school said in order for Hamilton to work there, she had to sign a contract promising that she would follow certain Christian beliefs -- one of which is no premarital sex.

By violating that contract, sources said the school had no choice but to fire her in order to set a proper Christian example.

Officials at the school said because they are a private Christian school, they are protected from certain civil rights violations.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Also I don't think there's anti-discrimination law that covers "sex outside of marriage" and she wasn't fired because she was pregnant but because she got pregnant.

They don't cover it in name but sexual harassment laws (asking when a child was concieved and making employment decisions based on that information is certainly sexual harassment) certainly cover it, and anti-discrimination laws are just another rabbit out of that same hat.

Furthermore, a man would probably not be fired for the same offense, because there would be little to no reason to ever ask that question of a man, who would be less likely to take FMLA due to pregnancy. Hence, discrimination.

Was pregant=got pregnant in many ways. Had she been unmarried and pregnant while on a job interview and found out that they didn't hire her specifically for the reason that she was pregnant she'd have (IMO) a pretty strong case there, too.