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What trends do you see in the law pertaining to pregnancy discrimination?
What trends do you see in the law pertaining to pregnancy discrimination?
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so for years the only types of pregnancy
discrimination cases we would see was
when women would come in and say “Hey I
was this superstar I was rising through
the ranks I just kept getting promotions
and getting raises and being told I was
doing great.” And the minute I got
pregnant like it all stopped And you
know the minute I got pregnant or the
minute I took leave it all stopped and
all of a sudden I couldn’t do anything
right But what we’ve seen since then
we’ve seen sort of a shift in the
pregnancy discrimination claims and what
we’ve seen a lot more of recently are
cases involving employers failure to
accommodate uh pregnant workers
pregnancy related conditions right so if
they’re actually pregnant at the time So
not giving employees enough time to take
breaks for water or or you know uh
giving them a hard time when they take
breaks for water Not allowing them just
to take rest breaks Not allowing the
pregnant employees to take time off to
go to the doctor because there’s so many
doctor appointments when you are
pregnant or not even once the even when
the employee returns the pregnant
employee returns from leave she’s
entitled to a private and secure and
safe space to um express uh breast milk
right to to pump And we have
consistently seen um employers refuse to
provide that accommodation to refuse to
provide um safe clean areas and to tell
women to use the bathroom and that’s not
good enough um or to tell them to go
pump in their cars Um and we really have
seen a lot more of these types of cases
in recent years
Morristown, NJ employment law attorney Claudia Reis talks about the trends she sees in the law pertaining to pregnancy discrimination.
