Frontier airlines accused of discriminating against pregnant, breast-feeding flight attendants

Two flight attendants with Frontier Airlines filed sex discrimination complaints on Tuesday, claiming the airline is "systematically failing" to accommodate pregnant and breast-feeding employees.

Both Jo Roby and Stacy Rewitzer allege Frontier forced them into unpaid leave after giving birth and forbade them from pumping breast milk during 10-hour days after working for the airline for more than a decade each.

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"I am bringing these charges not just for me and my daughter, but also for future flight attendants and their families," Roby said in a statement provided by the ACLU. "No one should have to choose between being the mom she wants to be and pursuing the career she loves."

The two complaints filed by the veteran attendants with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Tuesday, arrived just one year after four pilots filed similar charges against Frontier. One of those pilots, who is still breastfeeding, Randi Freyer, claims the airline is still failing to accommodate her while working by denying her request to take shorter flights.

Submitted with help from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado and the law firm of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg, the Roby and Rewitzer's filings allege Frontier's policies violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans discrimination based on sex, pregnancy, childbirth and disability in employment.

"Frontier's policies are discriminatory at a structural level and need to be changed," Galen Sherwin, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Women's Rights Project said in a statement to AOL News. "The decks are stacked against female employees at Frontier because its workplace policies don't account for pregnancy or breastfeeding."

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Sherwin says the company offers no set maternity leave—paid or unpaid—for flight attendants, which leave most with "no choice but to return to work when their babies are still only a few months old and are still nursing."

Frontier Airlines spokesman Jim Faulkner told AOL News Tuesday that the company complies with all state and federal laws.

"Our policies and practices comply with all federal and state laws as well as with the relevant provisions of the collective bargaining agreement between Frontier and its flight attendant group," the statement said. "We have made good-faith efforts to identify and provide rooms and other secure locations for use by breast-feeding flight attendants during their duty travel."