Century Oils (Canada) Inc. vs. Davies (1988)

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Century Oils made an offer of employment to Christine Davies and subsequently withdrew that offer when she told the employer that she was pregnant. The BC Supreme Court made the precedent-setting ruling that pregnancy discrimination was sex discrimination. A previous ruling in the Bliss case had ruled that pregnancy discrimination was not sex discrimination (the Bliss decision was subsequently over turned by Brooks v. Safeway Canada).