This week in employment law. 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 ›
A (not so) perfect cluster. Continue Reading ›
Stuff's getting real. Continue Reading ›
Athletes, too, are protected by law.
EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this article was previously published on Forbes.com. Continue Reading ›
The legal challenges relate to "abortion accommodation." Continue Reading ›
A handy guide on what not to do. Continue Reading ›
The TL;DR version. Continue Reading ›
It's worth a read. Continue Reading ›
About time! Continue Reading ›
Nothing you wouldn't already have figured out. Continue Reading ›
Happy Mother's Day weekend. Continue Reading ›
Not in my opinion. Continue Reading ›
Fictional, but based on a true story. Continue Reading ›
... and have been asking about for months. Continue Reading ›
Can employers breathe easy now? Continue Reading ›
Test your knowledge about FMLA, pregnancy, and more! Continue Reading ›
National origin, race, age, pregnancy -- and coronavirus. Continue Reading ›
And my best guesses as to the answers. Continue Reading ›
(Still 100 percent guaranteed non-partisan.) Continue Reading ›
Almost all good news for employers. Continue Reading ›
And dads get to play, too. Continue Reading ›
This case makes my head hurt. Continue Reading ›
A new lawsuit filed by the EEOC is a good guide for employers on what not to do. Continue Reading ›
Pow! Pow! Pow! Continue Reading ›
I'm gonna say no. Continue Reading ›
Yikes. Sounds like Japan is past due for a Pregnancy Discrimination Act. Continue Reading ›
It's the attorney who won the ground-breaking "pregnancy accommodation" case. Continue Reading ›
A residential care provider has settled an EEOC lawsuit alleging failure to accommodate an employee's pregnancy. 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 ›
Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking to the Federal Bar Association about hot topics under the Americans with Disabilities Act with my blogging buddy Bill Goren, proprietor of the Understanding the ADA blog. If you haven’t visited Bill’s blog, you should — he covers all aspects of the ADA, including Titles II and III, as well as the employment provisions (Title I).
Here are four ADA (or ADA-related) areas that employers need to watch in the coming year: Continue Reading ›
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