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Days Since Last COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Post: One Zero. Continue reading
Now, the CDC strongly recommends urgent action to vaccinate pregnant women. But, what about accommodations?
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How does one major airline plan to accommodate religious vaccine exemptions? With unpaid leave.
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Several news outlets reported yesterday that a major airline that has already mandated employee vaccinations will begin placing employees on temporary unpaid leave if approved for a religious vaccine exemption. Continue reading
WARNING: This pregnancy discrimination lawsuit might make your brain explode 🤯
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Imagine requiring a job applicant to reveal whether she is pregnant. That’s bad!
And what if that was a company policy? That’s worse.
But, let’s suppose that the company’s policy of disclosing pregnancies is IN WRITING. Continue reading
Does federal law require employers to provide leave from work to a woman recovering from a c-section?
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Pregnancy accommodations continue to trip up even the most seasoned HR professionals. Let’s see how you would handle this scenario.
Maybe if I blog about it enough, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will actually become law
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For the third time in the past year, I am blogging about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
Why? Continue reading
Employers that operate in THIS state can require workers to get vaccinated
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Several states are taking steps to forbid employers from requiring that workers receive COVID-19 vaccinations. Separately, I know of at least two pending lawsuits that employees have filed. I already blogged about one of them here. The other is pending in a federal court in California.
But it’s the California of the East a/k/a New Jersey that has taken a much different approach. Continue reading
Did an employer take a job offer back from a pregnant woman while getting induced?!? The EEOC thinks so.
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Worse yet, the employer is a hospital!!! Continue reading
🚨HR ALERT🚨 If your employee handbook is missing a “Pregnancy Accommodations” policy, fix that ASAP!
pregnant woman by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project
If you missed The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour on Friday, head on over to The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel — be sure to subscribe while you are there — and check out the replay. Among the topics that Robin Shea and I discussed was the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Continue reading
Ok, so what employment-related claims can a man with a pregnant wife file?
Yesterday, I told you that a man couldn’t bring a pregnancy bias claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But, a bunch of you actual and aspiring employee-rights attorneys had ideas to prove me wrong.