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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act; Long title: To eliminate discrimination and promote women's health and economic security by ensuring reasonable workplace accommodations for workers whose ability to perform the functions of a job are limited by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition. Announced in: the 117th United States Congress ...
Pregnant and postpartum workers now have access to 'reasonable accommodations' after the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act went into effect on June 27. State laws, such as California's, that are more ...
A reasonable accommodation is an adjustment made in a system to accommodate or make fair the same system for an individual based on a proven need. That need can vary. Accommodations can be religious, physical, mental or emotional, academic, or employment-related, and law often mandates them. Each country has its own system of reasonable ...
United Parcel Service, in this case the Supreme Court sought to answer the question of if the Pregnancy Discrimination Act requires an employer to provide the same accommodations to a pregnant employee than to employees with similar non-pregnancy related work limitations. The court found that employers are not required to provide these same ...
Topping the new laws that go into effect on Jan. 1 is the state's new paid pre-natal leave policy, allowing pregnant employees to take 20 hours of paid leave for a long list of pregnancy-related ...
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Treating a pregnant employee in a way that would violate disability standards is also a violation of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). If an employee is temporarily unable to perform her job due to pregnancy, the employer must treat her the same as any other temporarily disabled employee; for example, by providing light duty, modified ...
The Massachusetts Pregnant Workers Fairness Act grants pregnant workers the right to the "acquisition or modification of equipment or seating", which is considered a reasonable accommodation for pregnant workers. An employer cannot request medical documentation if a pregnant worker makes requests for seating. [97]