A: An employer must have one of these to avoid running afoul of discrimination laws when an employee is out on a medical leave of absence. ...

Is there a more controversial topic than abortion? As controversial and divisive as it might be, the law is pretty clear that an employer ca...

A fast-food restaurant fired a recently hired employee after its manager learned she was pregnant. How do we know this was the manager'...

1969. Woodstock. Abbey Road . The Moon Landing. And pregnancy discrimination.

By Grand Parc  CC BY 2.0  via  Wiki Commons Michelle Bailey worked in the human resources department of Oakwood Healthcare. Durin...

Pregnancy discrimination has been unlawful under federal law since 1978. You’d think by now employers would have learned their lesson—that...

Paternalism and pregnant workers do not mix. Case in point? According to this EEOC press release , the agency has sued a North Carolina re...

It’s been nearly a year since the EEOC updated its administrative guidance on pregnancy discrimination to account for the Supreme Court’s...

I read with great interest the following story in the New York Post , entitled, “I want all the perks of maternity leave — without having ...

Last week, the Pregnancy Reasonable Accommodation Act (S.B. 301) [pdf] was introduced in the Ohio Senate. The bill seeks to raise pregnan...

The EEOC recently announced that it has filed suit against a Texas home healthcare company for terminating a pregnant employee. The EEOC des...

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Young v. UPS , the EEOC has updated its administrative guidance on pregnancy discrimination....

This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of its most anticipated employment-law rulings of this term, in Young v. United Parcel Servi...

On Monday I published my list of the five biggest issues employers need to watch and manage in 2015. I listed “pregnancy leave rights” as n...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Young v. UPS , which will decide whether Title VII requires an employer to accommodate p...

On Monday, a California jury awarded a former Autozone employee $185 million in punitive damages. She had sued the company for pregnancy di...

Yesterday afternoon, Jeff Nowak and I had a lively tête-à-tête on Twitter—aka the #hrintelchat—on all things pregnancy discrimination. In c...

This afternoon, from 3 – 4 pm, EST, I, along with my friend, Jeff Nowak , will be hosting a TweetChat for Thompson Information Services on t...

Every so often, I write a post that rankles some feathers. Yesterday’s was one such post. Recall that yesterday I discussed a case in which...

In Cadenas v. Butterfield Health Care II, Inc. (N.D. Ill. 7/15/14) , a federal court asked the question of whether an employer could termin...