Private Salt Lake school settles bias lawsuit

Reid School, a private school in Salt Lake City, has agreed to pay $34,500 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit involving a fired preschool teacher, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The EEOC filed suit charging that the school had discriminated against Tawna Pippin, a three-year employee, when it fired her and did not renew her 2002-03 teaching contract after she became pregnant.

The settlement also calls for the school to provide training for employees regarding sex discrimination, pregnancy discrimination and workers' rights under the federal law Title VII. That is part of the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act that forbids discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender and national origin.