Today, the EEOC's  regulations interpreting the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act  go into effect. Thanks to two very recent federal court o...

A law firm fires its HR Manager a mere days before she is set to return to work from maternity leave. It says it fired her for "cause,&...

From this point forward, if an employee needs an unpaid leave of absence to obtain and recover from an abortion, you better give it her. I r...

With in vitro fertilization all over the news for the past week, it's time for this important public service announcement — IVF discrimi...

Employers, hear to me now and believe me later — it is unacceptable to force a lactating employee to pump her breast milk in an open stockro...

An employee works as a speech-language pathologist in a large, metropolitan school district, traveling between two elementary schools and a ...

Consider this example, and then let's talk. Lydia works as a cellar person in a brewery. The essential functions of her job include the ...

Missy, a newly hired server in the taproom of a brewery, suffers a miscarriage and asks her manager for ten days of leave to recover. As a n...

Consider the following scenarios: A pregnant employee has already used her annual allotment of FMLA leave and has no FMLA leave available to...

Two laws — the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act — took effect wh...

In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in  Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization   that ended federal constitutional pro...

According to a recently filed EEOC lawsuit , Dollar General violated Title VII by firing a sales employee because of her pregnancy. More to ...

I was tagged  on Twitter to address  this situation . My friend did a drug test for a part time job for the local school district. When she...

Consider the following  two policies: Employees injured on the job will be offered Temporary Alternative Duty ("TAD") — light duty...

Within hours of the Supreme Court releasing its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization  and reversing Roe v. Wad e, DICK...

Is it legal to fire an employee who has an abortion? This is question that a lot of employers and employees will now be asking in light of t...

Within hours of the Supreme Court announcing its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , Lauren Horbart, the President an...

The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement with Labcorp over allegations that it failed to provide lactating employees a space fo...

The headline  reads, "Trump aides made a late request to Team Biden to extend their parental leave. They said no." Here's the ...

I watched with great interest yesterday story on CBS Sunday Morning  about an employer’s obligation to accommodate an employee’s pregnancy...