The same supervisor who okayed her time off later warned her about absences, the EEOC says
A Georgia company fired a pregnant worker one day after she asked for a single day of leave, federal regulators allege.
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against Guice Services, Inc., which operates as Rooter ProXpress, on July 20, 2026, in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The agency claims the company fired a bilingual customer service representative because she was pregnant, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law that bars sex and pregnancy discrimination.
Here is the sequence the EEOC lays out. The worker started in January 2024. In February, she told her office manager she was pregnant, and the office manager passed the news to her direct supervisor the same day, according to the complaint.
Weeks later, the filing says, that same supervisor issued a written warning about the worker's absences - even though the supervisor had approved the time off, and at least two of the flagged absences were for pregnancy-related medical appointments.
The events moved quickly from there, according to the complaint. On May 8, 2024, the worker asked her supervisor for one day off, citing pregnancy-related high blood pressure, nausea, and round ligament pain. She said the day was to protect her health and her baby's, the filing states. The supervisor's reply, according to the complaint: "Ok no problem . . . feel...
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