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New Pregnant Workers Fairness Act rules include accommodations for abortion
The 1978 law, which amended Title VII, prohibited discrimination on the basis of pregnancy and marked a major shift for gender equality at a time when pregnant women were routinely denied or ...
HR Dive1mon
Employer allegedly created ‘exculpatory paper trail’ to justify firing pregnant HR employee
Separate from the PWFA, Title VII, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, prohibits employers from firing, refusing to hire or taking “any other adverse action against a woman because ...
JD Supra14d
Recent Executive Orders’ Impact on the EEOC
Recent executive orders have caused the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to abandon litigation and guidance on LGBTQ+ protections ...
National Review1y
Rulemaking Overreach by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Another statute, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was amended in 1978 to include “pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions” in its prohibition against sex discrimination.
National Review4y
Title VII, Compositionality, and ‘Discriminate Against’
From his abstract: This short essay focuses on a linguistic (and therefore textualist) principle overlooked in the trio of Title VII cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court: compositionality.
University of Texas at San Antonio3y
EOS Law and Policy
sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or abortion), religion, or national origin. The Civil Rights Act of 1991 included additional provisions to Title VII reversing or reinforcing certain U.S. Supreme ...