Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a series of August events highlighting the importance of maternal health and workplace protections for expectant and new mothers to mark National Breastfeeding Month. On Aug. 10, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. EDT, the department’s Wage and Hour Division and Women’s Bureau and the U.S.…
Yesterday, we covered whether the Family and Medical Leave Act allows women who have an abortion to obtain leave for a serious health condition. Today, we’ll talk about the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), which amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit employers from taking adverse employment…
pregnant woman by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project Days Since Last COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Post: One Zero. A little over a month ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommended vaccinations for all women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant now, or might become…
Image by TheDigitalWay from Pixabay Several news outlets reported yesterday that a major airline that has already mandated employee vaccinations will begin placing employees on temporary unpaid leave if approved for a religious vaccine exemption. You can read more on the story here, here, and here. According to the CNBC…
Image by Klaus Hausmann from Pixabay Imagine requiring a job applicant to reveal whether she is pregnant. That’s bad! And what if that was a company policy? That’s worse. But, let’s suppose that the company’s policy of disclosing pregnancies is IN WRITING. Ho-Ley 💩‼ These are just some of the…
Image Credit: Photofunia On Friday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission posted updated and expanded technical assistance related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new guidance answers open questions on issues surrounding vaccines like: Can an employer require employees to get vaccinated? Can an employer incentivize employees to get vaccines? How…
Image Credit: month by Rohit Arun Rao from the Noun Project Pregnancy accommodations continue to trip up even the most seasoned HR professionals. Let’s see how you would handle this scenario. ABC Company has a pregnant employee. She requests a 30-day leave of absence for childbirth, which ABC grants. After…
Image by councilcle from Pixabay For the third time in the past year, I am blogging about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Why? Because last week, Senators Murkowski (R-AK), Casey (D-PA), Cassidy (R-LA), Shaheen (D-NH), and Moore Capito (R-WV) introduced the PWFA in the Senate. On September 17, 2020, the…
Image by torstensimon from Pixabay Several states are taking steps to forbid employers from requiring that workers receive COVID-19 vaccinations. Separately, I know of at least two pending lawsuits that employees have filed. I already blogged about one of them here. The other is pending in a federal court in…
maternity ward by Made by Made from the Noun Project Worse yet, the employer is a hospital!!! Now, remember that what I’m about to share with you are allegations from a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission press release, which the EEOC will eventually have to prove to be true. But,…