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EEOC’s Final Pregnant Worker Fairness Act Regulations Cover Abortion

Kollman & Saucier

04/22/2024

Pregnancy Discrimination, PWFA, Title VII

On April 19, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its final regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The regulations embrace a broad characterization of the PWFA’s use of the phrase “pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.” Ultimately, the regulations cover current, past, and potential pregnancy. The EEOC’s adoption of a broad view does not come as a surprise. The initial proposal...

Vincent Jackson

07/07/2023

Pregnancy Discrimination, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) went into effect on June 27, 2023, and the EEOC will now be investigating and enforcing all charges for conduct alleged to have occurred on or after that date. The PWFA requires covered employers (generally, private and public sector employers with at least 15 employees) to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers (existing laws already prohibit firing or discrimination on the basis of...

Kollman & Saucier

01/04/2023

Pregnancy Discrimination

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) is a new federal law that will require employers with fifteen or more employees to make reasonable workplace accommodations for qualified employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. The PWFA, which was included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2023, was signed by President Biden on December 29, 2022 and takes effect on June 27, 2023. The PWFA closes a loophole in the...

Darrell VanDeusen

08/22/2022

Pregnancy Discrimination

Pregnancy has been in the news a lot this year, mostly due to the Supreme Court’s June 24, 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U.S. ___ (2022), which overturned Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). The Dobbs decision impacts employers, but I will save that discussion for another day. Today we will revisit the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978, and a recent decision from the Seventh Circuit that held Walmart...

Kollman & Saucier

06/11/2020

Age Discrimination, COVID-19, EEOC, Employment Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination, Reasonable Accommodations/Undue Burden

In an updated guidance on COVID-19, the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws, the EEOC has clarified an employer need not accommodate an employee's request to telework who is not high risk but lives with high risk individuals. The EEOC has also clarified that companies may not mandate exclude older workers and pregnant employees from the workplace even though public health authorities advise they are a higher risk group for severe...

Kollman & Saucier

05/23/2018

Employment Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination, Pretext, Sex Discrimination

How do courts handle cases of alleged pretextual behavior designed to cover up discriminatory actions? A recent Tenth Circuit decision sheds a little light on this issue. Fassbender v. Correct Care Solutions, LLC, No. 17-3054 (10th Cir. May 15, 2018). Alena Fassbender worked for Correct Care Solutions (CCS) as a medication aide at a Kansas detention center. Fassbender was pushing her medication cart down one of the center’s cell blocks on April...

Kollman & Saucier

04/25/2018

Employment Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination

A recent decision from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals provides a reminder that authorized leave -- such as maternity leave -- does not insulate an employee from termination for poor performance and other inappropriate conduct. Bailey v. Oakwood Healthcare, Inc., Case No. 17-2158 (6th Cir. Apr. 23, 2018) (unpublished). Michelle Bailey worked as a senior staffing professional for Oakwood Healthcare, Inc. Nearly eight months into her tenure...

Darrell VanDeusen

03/05/2018

Employment Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination

Channeling Rod Serling here. “Imagine if you will….” (for those readers too young to recognize the quote, check out “The Twilight Zone”). You are responsible for hiring a new employee. During the interview process, an applicant says, “by the way, I am pregnant.” How do you respond? I have used this hypothetical in employment law training sessions. The answer is always the same: “congratulations.” And leave it at...

Kollman & Saucier

09/12/2017

Employment Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination

In Young v. UPS, Inc., the Supreme Court concluded that an employee who alleges that the denial of an accommodation amounted to disparate treatment under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) may set forth a prima facie case by showing that she belongs to PDA’s protected class, she sought an accommodation, the employer refused to provide an accommodation, and the employer accommodated others “similar in their ability or inability to work.” ...

Kollman & Saucier

01/31/2016

Employment Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination, Wage & Hour

This past week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a pregnant employee who worked unauthorized overtime and was terminated two months after announcing her pregnancy could not prevail on claims brought under federal employment laws. Fairchild v. All American Check Cashing, Inc., No. 15-60190 (1/27/16). Because the plaintiff could not show that her employer had knowledge of the overtime work, or that her employer’s...

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EEOC’s Final Pregnant Worker Fairness Act Regulations Cover Abortion

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