California’s state law offers several key protections to pregnant workers. Under the law, your pregnancy is protected as a “disability” or a “medical condition”. This means employers may need to make exceptions to some general policies in order to accommodate pregnant...
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Can your employer dictate when you take medical leave?
If you are expecting to welcome a new baby into your family, you may worry about how your pregnancy and the months after it may affect your career. Fortunately, federal and state laws likely protect your job during your pregnancy-related medical leave. As you may...
Accommodations available to pregnant woman while working
If your California employer has more than five full-time employees, you have rights to prevent harassment and discrimination if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. For example, while you are pregnant, your employer must allow routine accommodations that help...
Many types of discrimination are at play for pregnant women
Discrimination of any type is not legal in employment situations. However, every day there are new claims from employees who face such issues. Pregnancy discrimination is one such area that seems to keep coming up despite laws and other efforts to stop it. It has a...
Identifying pregnancy discrimination in a job interview
Searching for a job while pregnant is an incredibly difficult task for a woman to go through. Not only do you have to consider your health and whether you are physically well enough to go into an interview, but you also have to bear in mind the impact of pregnancy...
Update: more money paid for pregnancy discrimination in 2018
A previous post on this blog discussed how thousands of people across the country, including in California, file pregnancy discrimination claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) every year. The EEOC is a federal agency charged with enforcing the...
Major national law firm sued for pregnancy discrimination
One would think that a large law firm with billions of dollars in revenue annually and a presence across the globe would know better than to run afoul of applicable employment discrimination laws, including laws prohibiting pregnancy discrimination and discrimination...
Many cases of pregnancy discrimination go unreported
For over 40 years now, the federal government has afforded employment protections to pregnant women via the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. This law basically prevents women who are in the workforce from being singled out or discriminated against because they either...
Some more subtle forms of pregnancy discrimination
As this blog has discussed on several previous occasions, it is unlawful for a Fresno, California, employer to treat their pregnant employees, or job applicants, differently because they are pregnant. On the grander scale, this means not firing, refusing to hire or...
Mass transit company facing pregnancy discrimination claims
A mass transit company that helps move commuters and others about the eastern part of the Bay Area in California is facing allegations of pregnancy discrimination. In addition to the pregnancy discrimination allegations, the company, AC Transit, is also being accused...