When her boss at the pizza restaurant fired her over text, Jaylee Morrison could hardly believe her eyes.
“I didn’t know u were lactating,” the message said, “and we don’t have breaks to pump every 25 minutes when u r the only server on.”
Morrison had given birth to her son, Asher, eight months earlier and said she only asked for one five- to ten-minute break to pump.
“I was like, this cannot be real,” the 21-year-old from Paulding County told the FOX 5 I-Team.
She also thought she had the restaurant dead to rights for a lawsuit. But after hiring an attorney and filing a federal discrimination complaint, she found out she’s out of luck. That’s because Georgia has no law against pregnancy discrimination. While it’s barred by federal law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act doesn’t cover what happened to Morrison.
“Georgia has no laws that protect employees,” said Atlanta labor attorney Amanda Farahany, who did not represent Morrison but reviewed …