A new sales employee in the Oklahoma City area was still getting her footing at a homebuilder when she says the tone around her job changed fast. One moment, she was being told she was doing well. The next, she was out of work less than two weeks after her employer learned she was pregnant.
That’s the timeline laid out in a federal EEOC press release announcing a lawsuit against H.C. Employees, LLC, which does business as Home Creations, a homebuilder operating in Oklahoma and Texas. The agency says the firing wasn’t about performance or policies at all—it was about pregnancy.
Compliments first, then the countdown started
According to the EEOC, the employee was hired as a new sales staffer and was nearing the end of a 90-day “introductory period” in fall 2023 when Home Creations found out she was pregnant. The lawsuit claims that, shortly after learning that news, the company terminated her employment.
The key detail is how close together everything happened. The EEOC says the termination came less than two weeks after the employer learned of the pregnancy. And while the company later pointed to policy violations—including low home sales—the agency says she had previously been told she was doing a good job…