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Five cautions for employers. Continue Reading ›

Hindsight is 20-20.

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which took effect in June 2023, requires reasonable accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, and “related medical conditions.” The statute gave authority to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to issue regulations more precisely defining employers’ reasonable accommodation obligations. Continue Reading ›

Accommodate, accommodate, accommodate!

I started practicing law two years before Congress enacted the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), and four years before it took effect (1992 for larger employers, 1994 for smaller ones). Continue Reading ›

I am pumped! Are you? Continue Reading ›

The USDOL has issued a handy little guide. Continue Reading ›

Pregnancy and lactation accommodation. Continue Reading ›

Test your knowledge about FMLA, pregnancy, and more! Continue Reading ›

Happy holiday weekend! Continue Reading ›

How much do you know about an employer’s reasonable accommodation obligations under the law(s)? Take this quiz and find out!

Question 1: Which of the following federal employment laws require reasonable 

accommodation, either by their terms or as courts have interpreted them over the years?

A. The Americans with Disabilities Act

B. The Family and Medical Leave Act

C. Title VII-religion

D. The Nursing Mothers Act

E. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act

F. All of the above

G. A, C, D, and E

ANSWER: G. The FMLA does not require reasonable accommodation, but all of these other laws do. And there is some overlap between the FMLA and pregnancy or disability accommodation because leave for pregnancy or disability can be a form of reasonable accommodation. Continue Reading ›