Excerpt: Next Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in AT&T v. Hulteen (the ScotusWiki page with links is here), a case involving pregnancy leave and the calculation of years of service for retirement benefits. The plaintiffs are women who worked for AT&T and its predecessor, Pacific Bell, who took leave related to pregnancies before 1979, and who retired between 1994 and 2000. Before 1979, the company limited the amount of pregnancy leave that would count towards service for calculating pension benefits, but did not limit the amount of other temporary disability leave that would count for service. In other words, before 1979, the company treated pregnancy leave differently from other temporary disability leave to calculate pension benefits at retirement.  MORE >>