SC bans religious schools from firing pregnant, unmarried workers

The Supreme Court ruled it illegal on Tuesday, February 24 for companies to fire pregnant, unmarried employees on the grounds of ‘morality.’ The decisions stems from a case of Cheryll Santos Leus, who sued her former employer, St Scholastica’s College Westrgove (SSCW) for unjust dismissal. Leus was fired after she conceived a child out of wedlock. The school dismissed her in grounds that she showed “disgraceful or immoral conduct.” But the Supreme Court division hearing the case disagreed, saying that morality in this case should refer to “public and secular morality and not religious morality.”

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