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• Jury says TUCOEMAS discriminated against employee when she developed breast cancer • Loses job, demoted, when she asked for two more weeks to recover A Tulare County Superior Court jury has ordered TUCOEMAS Federal Credit Union of Visalia to pay its former vice president of lending $3.2 million in an employment discrimination case. Kim McGee of Exeter said she was demoted to a part-time job from her former position as a vice president of the credit union after she asked for two additional weeks to recover from treatment for breast cancer, which had included an operation as well as chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Her job had been held for her for four months. In making the award, the jury agreed that the 30,000-member credit union had failed to provide accommodations for Ms. McGee and had reduced her wages and benefits after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Ms. McGee had worked for the credit union for 17 years.
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