Union Pacific
This is gender discrimination lawsuit filed against America’s largest railroad company, Union Pacific that operates in 23 states. Although they provided a wide variety of preventive healthcare, including impotence and hair loss drugs, their policies, however, excluded contraceptives for women.
In June 2005, a federal judge ruled that Union Pacific discriminated against women by refusing them contraceptive coverage. Backed by Planned Parenthood, the class action lawsuit allegedly charged that Union Pacific’s employee healthcare plan violated the federal Civil Rights Act.
The lead plaintiffs were Union Pacific employees Brandi Standridge from Idaho and Kenya Phillips from Kansas City.
Since then, the railroad has included contraceptive coverage. In March 2007, charges of gender discrimination were dropped. According to the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Union Pacific did not discriminate against women, because its health policies did not cover men or women for contraceptives.
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