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‘Bad’ employee fired during maternity leave: Retaliation?

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by John Walston

Biz owes $160K for refusing pregnant worker light duty

The EEOC gave one company an expensive reminder that when a pregnant employee requests a reasonable accommodation, the employer must grant it. American Medical Response Ambulance Service (AMR), based in Spokane, WA, was sued by the EEOC when it failed to accommodate a pregnant employee. The worker asked for light duty toward the end of […]

by Rachel Mucha

Does employer have to give pregnant worker light duty?

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by John Walston

Pregnancy Discrimination Act: Was light-duty denial bias?

Unlike an Alabama district court, an appeals court couldn’t see the difference between injured workers who couldn’t lift more than 20 pounds and a pregnant worker who couldn’t lift 50, since none of them could meet the requirement to lift 100 pounds. So it told the district court to take up the case again and […]

by Tim McElgunn
Pregnancy Discrimination Act case heads back to court

Question: Under what circumstances do pregnant employees get light duty assignments or other accommodations? 

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by John Walston

Question: We have an employee who has breastfed her baby several times during Zoom meetings, and it’s bothered some employees. Can we ask her not to?

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by Rachel Mucha

Question: We have several employees on maternity leave right now. What can we do now to help ease their transition back to work?

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by Rachel Mucha

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