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Hospital fails to justify refusal to hire male obstetrical nurses.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-MAY-04 		Format: Online - approximately 610 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Hospital fails to justify refusal to hire male obstetrical nurses.(West Virginia)

Article Excerpt
The West Virginia Supreme Court has reversed a circuit court's ruling that allowed a hospital to refuse to hire a male nurse to work in obstetrics. The lower court had found that privacy concerns made gender a "bona fide occupational qualification" (BFOQ), which qualifies as an exception to the statutory mandate against discriminatory employment practices. (Slivka v. Camden-Clark Mem'l Hosp., No. 31404, 2004 WL 323199 (W. Va. Feb. 19, 2004).)

Michael Slivka, a registered nurse, had held several positions in obstetrics, including staff nurse in a hospital's obstetrical department, when...

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