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Bloomberg LP's maternity discrimination suit widens

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May 3, 2008

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Though Bloomberg LP, the company founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, says that fewer than two dozen of its more than 10,000 employees worldwide had filed suit against it in the United States, that number has now increased and widens the scope of a lawsuit against the company that became a distraction for the mayor during his second term.

A lawyer has told a judge that the number of women accusing the financial services company of discrimination against employees who take maternity leave has risen from three to 58, with more likely to be added.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday that the Manhattan-based company engaged in a pattern of demoting women, diminishing their duties and excluding them from job opportunities after they disclosed their pregnancies.

Bloomberg LP said the allegations are without merit.

The mayor - who retains a 68 percent stake in the privately held company, whose subsidiaries include Bloomberg News - is not a defendant in the lawsuit.

And he bristled when asked about it at an unrelated news conference Thursday.

The next hearing in the case was set for September.

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