Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) Update
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The Burr Morning Show: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
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On January 17, 2024, just days before the new presidential term began, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published its annual performance report for the preceding Fiscal Year 2024. The Report highlights a year...more
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In this first of two parts on the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), current Vice Chair of the EEOC Jocelyn Samuels discusses the regulations implementing the PWFA and how the PWFA differs from Title VII and the...more
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On April 15, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") issued its final regulations interpreting the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ("PWFA"). The PWFA became effective on June 27, 2023, and the regulations...more
On April 19, 2024, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) issued a final rule (the Rule) to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). Although the PWFA went into effect last year in June 2023, the EEOC’s...more
On April 19, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published its final rule interpreting the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Today, the newly minted regulations went into effect....more
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”) issued a final regulation to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”). The regulation goes into effect on June 18, 2024....more
On April 15, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a Final Rule on implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The PWFA was enacted in December 2022 and has been in effect since June...more
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), the newest member of the family of federal anti-discrimination laws, is almost one year old! Instead of inviting employers over for cake and photo ops, after one year of accepting...more
On April 15, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its final rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The PWFA requires employers to provide pregnant workers or workers who have known limitations...more
On April 15, 2024 the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published final regulations on the new federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The new regulations, which will take effect June 18, 2024,...more
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On April 15, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the EEOC) published its final Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) regulation requiring covered employers to provide qualifying employees and applicants...more
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