The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its final regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The landmark statute mandating “reasonable accommodation” of workers’ pregnancy-related needs went into effect last summer, but the regulations explain the PWFA’s protections in more detail, providing additional guidance to workers, employers, and the courts so that the full force of the law is given effect.
Author: Gillian Thomas
Gillian Thomas is a senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s Women's Rights Project and author of Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed the Lives of America's Working Women (St. Martin’s, 2016)