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Employers Now Required to Make Accommodations for Pregnant Workers
New guidelines released by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission clearly require employers to make reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers, and not to let the person’s condition get in the way of hiring the person or promotions, or be used as an excuse to fire an employee. The guidelines were revised after 30 years, and… Read More »
Accommodation of Pregnant Employees in the Workplace
The number of pregnancy-related discrimination lawsuits filed across the country has skyrocketed in recent years. According to one review of pregnancy-based workplace discrimination lawsuits between 1986 and 2003, as many as 40% of all gender-based workplace bias lawsuits involved pregnant women. According to the data, since 2000 alone, complaints about workplace- discrimination filed by… Read More »
