She came back from maternity leave Monday. By Thursday, HR had her on a plan
A former Westinghouse manager says she was fired for line dancing at a work event - while male colleagues who took body shots kept their jobs.
Rucha Kale, who spent more than nine years at Westinghouse Electric Company, filed a sex discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, and retaliation lawsuit on May 4, 2026 in the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The complaint cites Title VII and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.
Kale started at Westinghouse as a Program Manager in April 2015 and worked her way up to Commercial Manager in the Reactor Services division by November 2022, with promotions to Outage Manager in 2017 and Senior Specialist in 2021 along the way. The complaint says she received steady positive reviews and was flagged as top talent.
In June 2023, her supervisor wrote her a recommendation for the Next-UP program, described in the complaint as a program for women in the nuclear power industry ready for director-level roles. In October 2023, the Vice President of Sales told her she was a frontrunner for her manager's job, the filing states.
Then she got pregnant with her second child.
Kale alleges she was hospitalized in January 2024 with pre-eclampsia, took four weeks of short-term disability before giving birth on February 14, 2024, and returned from parental leave on May 20, 2024. Three days later, she says, her supervisor and an HR representative pulled...
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