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Showing posts with label pregnancy discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pregnancy discrimination. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Not all reasonable accommodation standards are created equally

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Consider this example, and then let's talk. Lydia works as a cellar person in a brewery. The essential functions of her job include the ...
Monday, August 14, 2023

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and pregnancy loss

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Missy, a newly hired server in the taproom of a brewery, suffers a miscarriage and asks her manager for ten days of leave to recover. As a n...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Is your business prepared for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act?

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Consider the following scenarios: A pregnant employee has already used her annual allotment of FMLA leave and has no FMLA leave available to...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

While I was away, Congress pumped life into workplace rights of pregnant employees and new moms

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Two laws — the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act — took effect wh...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

EEOC Commissioner targets companies offering employees abortion travel benefits

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In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in  Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization   that ended federal constitutional pro...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Correlation isn’t necessarily causation … except when it is

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According to a recently filed EEOC lawsuit , Dollar General violated Title VII by firing a sales employee because of her pregnancy. More to ...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Pre-employment pregnancy testing?

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I was tagged  on Twitter to address  this situation . My friend did a drug test for a part time job for the local school district. When she...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Walmart wins discrimination claim brought on behalf of pregnant employees unable to work

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Consider the following  two policies: Employees injured on the job will be offered Temporary Alternative Duty ("TAD") — light duty...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Abortion travel benefits don’t discriminate against non-abortion-seeking pregnant workers

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Within hours of the Supreme Court releasing its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization  and reversing Roe v. Wad e, DICK...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

“Abortion discrimination” = illegal pregnancy discrimination … even after Dobbs

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Is it legal to fire an employee who has an abortion? This is question that a lot of employers and employees will now be asking in light of t...
Monday, June 27, 2022

The best response to the end of Roe v. Wade came from a company called DICK’S

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Within hours of the Supreme Court announcing its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , Lauren Horbart, the President an...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Pumping up workplace lactation rights

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The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement with Labcorp over allegations that it failed to provide lactating employees a space fo...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

No, you don’t get to keep your paid leave after your position is eliminated

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The headline  reads, "Trump aides made a late request to Team Biden to extend their parental leave. They said no." Here's the ...
Monday, January 13, 2020

CBS News misrepresents an employer’s obligation to accommodate an employee’s pregnancy

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I watched with great interest yesterday story on CBS Sunday Morning  about an employer’s obligation to accommodate an employee’s pregnancy...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Why are so many employers discriminating against lactating moms?

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Women were told to pump in their manager’s office or a meeting room without locks, where they were walked in on repeatedly. Many had to p...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Accommodating pregnant employees is a legal floor, not a ceiling

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UPS has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a pregnancy discrimination charge investigated by the EEOC. The agency was to consider whet...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Government sanctioned discrimination is abhorrent and we, as a nation, should be ashamed

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Trigger warning: today’s post is not for everyone. If, however, you are offended by what I am about to say, then today’s post is specifica...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Parental discrimination claims pose big risks for employers

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According to workingmother.com, More Parents Than Ever Are Suing Their Employers for Discrimination—and Winning . The article is right — ...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Abortion discrimination = pregnancy discrimination

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Thanks to, among other states , Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio (sorry about that last one), the debate over abortion is raging. Suppose you ar...
Thursday, January 3, 2019

Do as they say, not as they do: employees accuse Planned Parenthood of pregnancy discrimination

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According to a scathing report by The New York Times , employees nationwide are accusing Planned Parenthood of engaging in rampant pregnancy...