EEOC Expands Pregnancy Discrimination Protections for Employees

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued guidance on pregnancy discrimination that provides, for the first time, that employers must offer light duty assignments to pregnant employees if they make light duty available to non-pregnant employees. Under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 , an employer engages in sex discrimination if it fires, refuses to hire, demotes, or takes any other adverse action against a woman if pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition was a motivating factor in the adverse employment action.



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