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Missouri Construction Company to Pay $38K to Settle Pregnancy Discrimination Suit December 10, 2020 A St. Louis, Mo.-based construction company that revoked an applicant’s job offer after learning she was pregnant will settle a federal discrimination lawsuit for $38,000. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says The Harlan Company also will furnish other relief to settle the suit, in which the EEOC charged that the firm violated federal discrimination law by failing to hire a job applicant for a receptionist position in June 2019 because she was pregnant. According to the EEOC, the company interviewed the applicant and decided she was the best qualified person for an open receptionist position. The company offered the applicant the job and she accepted. The following day, the company learned she was pregnant. One day later, it revoked the job offer and hired another individual who was not pregnant.