European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars and stripes thursday january 22,1087 woman denied jobless pay loses Case Washington a slates Are under no special Legal obligation to pay unemployment benefits to women who lose their Job after taking maternity leave the supreme court ruled wednesday. The court said a Federal Law barring discrimination based on pregnancy in unemployment Benefit pay ments bans states Tom singling out pregnancy for unfavourable treatment Only. The Law docs not mandate preferential treatment for pregnant workers the court said. The b-0 decision is a defeat for a woman refuse unemployment benefits after being denied reinstate ment As a Kansas City mo., department store cashier when she wanted to return from maternity leave. Just last week the court in interpreting a separate Federal Law ruled that slates May require employers to give pregnant workers Job protections not available toothed employees the justices in that decision upheld a California la requiring employers to Grant unpaid leaves of absence and insure reinstatement for women whose pregnancies leave them unable to work Ven if leaves Are not granted for any other  wednesday the court said no such special Protection was intended by Congress when it passed the Federal unemployment Tan act of 1978. Justice Sandra Day o Connor writing for the court said. Congress intended Only to prohibit states from singling out pregnancy for unfavourable treatment. Of a state adopts a Neutral Rule thai incidentally Dis qualifies pregnant or formerly pregnant claimants apart of a larger group the Neutral application of that Rule is Legal. Missouri Law disqualifies anyone from collecting unemployment Benefit for leaving work voluntarily for reasons not  to court documents similar policies arc enforced in Minnesota North Dakota Vermont an the District of Columbia the practical Impact of wednesday s ruling Likely will be limited because most slates include leaves of absence taken because of pregnancy in those Good cause leaves that do not disqualify a worker from collecting unemployment if later denied reinstatement. In other action the court ruled that alleged polluters of interstate Waters May be sued outside i hair Home  the justices said such cases arc governed by the Law of the slate where the alleged pollution originates even if the lawsuits Are handled in courts in another  a 9-0 vote the court cleared the Way for Resolution in Federal court in Vermont of a suit against inter National paper co. By Vermont officials and residents who say he firm s Ticonderoga n.v., Plant is fouling Lake Champlain. Give a sweeping interpretation to Federal voting rights Laws in ruling that a City May be barred from annexing All while or undeveloped areas when the town refuses to Annex neighbouring areas where Blacks  court in a 6-3 decision ruled against the City of pleasant Grove ala., a practically All White suburb of Birmingham. In the maternity leave Case Linda Wimberly tried to collect unemployment Benefit in 1983 and was turned Down because of the Missouri Law Wimberly had been granted a maternity leave of absence from her Job at . Penney co. In August 1980. Her child was bom nov. 5 of thai year and on dec. I Wimberly notified her employer that she was ready to return to work. At the Lime however no cashier positions were available. After unsuccessfully applying for unemployment compensation Wimberly sued. She won in two stale courts but the Missouri supreme court ruled against her. Wednesday s decision upheld the state supreme court ruling. In finding that the Missouri Law does not conflict with the 197b Federal Law o Connor noted that All persons who leave work for reasons not causally connected to the work or the employer ate disqualified from receiving  to apply this Law it is not necessary to know Wim Bejijy left because of pregnancy All that is Rele vant is that she slopped work Tor a reason bearing no causal connection to her work or her  Justice Harry a. Blackmun did not participate in therase. The Case is Wimberly is. Labor and Industrial relations commission 85-129. Up Plu end of a Jet Era two is lactic a Jet fighter earning the markings of the Bahrain air Force Fly Over the desert Enst of Dlf Angeles. The Deli Erv of these last a Nothrop Bull fighters Marks the end of the manufacture of the is. Since the introduction of the f-5 in 1965, a total of 1,610 have been produced. Rail air Dot workers could face drug tests Washington