Abortion Protections Struck Down, LGBTQ Harassment Guidance Vacated, EEO-1 Reporting Opens - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Navigating Employee Leave and Reasonable Accommodation Requests Under the FMLA, ADA, and PWFA
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) Update
Employment Law Now VIII-152 - Part 2 of 2 on the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (Attorney Interview)
Employment Law Now VIII-151 - EEOC Commissioner Interview: Part 1 of 2 on the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Compliance Unveiled: 10 Must-Know Tips for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act & Independent Contractor Rules
The Burr Broadcast: Key Differences Between PWFA and ADA
#WorkforceWednesday: SCOTUS Expands Title VII, EEOC’s Final PWFA Rule, AI Screening Tools - Employment Law This Week®
The Burr Morning Show: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
The Burr Morning: Key Legal Developments to Watch for in 2024
Podcast: What Employers Should Know about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 62]
Employment Law Now VII-136 - Summer 2023 Wrap-Up Part 2
#WorkforceWednesday: NLRB Issues Stericycle Decision, EEOC Proposes Pregnant Worker Rule, EEOC Settles First AI Anti-Discrimination Suit - Employment Law This Week®
The Burr Broadcast Aug. 2023: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Employment Law Now VII-133 - Hot Summer Employment Law Developments
The Burr Morning Show April 2023 - The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
DE Under 3: EEOC Vice Chair Samuels & Commissioner Sonderling: EEO-1 Component 2 Survey Will Soon Return
#WorkforceWednesday: FTC Proposes Ban on Non-Competes, NY Expands Breastfeeding Protections, and CA Releases Guidance on Pay Transparency - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: CDC Guidance Fallout and Employment Legislation in Congress - Employment Law This Week®
As the academic year is now wrapping up, we hope that the final weeks of school have been relatively stress free, and that our clients are now looking forward to some slower summer days. Here at Franczek, we have continued to...more
Last week, an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals panel reversed a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by red state attorneys general challenging the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s inclusion of abortion among...more
I reported a few weeks ago that President Trump fired two Democratic Commissioners of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (former Chair Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels). He appointed Commissioner Andrea Lucas...more
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
Hotel Operator Agrees to Provide Reasonable Accommodations to Pregnant Employees - MIAMI – Lago Mar Properties, Inc., doing business as Lago Mar Resort & Beach Club (Lago Mar), a beachfront hotel and resort, agreed to...more
Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed two lawsuits alleging that employers violated the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). One lawsuit, filed in Alabama, alleges that an off-road vehicle...more
First Federal Lawsuit Claiming Violation of New Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - INDIANAPOLIS – Wabash National Corporation, a nationwide producer of semi-trailers and other commercial trucking equipment, violated federal...more
There has been a lot of talk about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). So, where are we now? What do you need to know? This newsletter provides a snapshot of what it took to get the PWFA and its regulations finalized,...more
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which became effective on June 27, 2023, requires covered employers to provide a reasonable accommodation for a qualified employee’s limitations surrounding pregnancy and childbirth...more
On June 17, 2024, a federal court in Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement in Louisiana and Mississippi of the portion of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) final rule...more
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
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
Pregnancy regs, harassment guidance under fire. Not long ago, I reported that a number of state attorneys general had filed suit seeking to block the final regulations interpreting the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Their...more
A lot has changed since Mother's Day 2023. Happy Mother's Day weekend, all, including you dads and kids (we couldn't have done it without you)! How much do you know about pregnancy in the workplace in 2023? Take our quiz...more
In April, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released two long-awaited final documents aimed at strengthening worker protections: the final rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA, or...more
All employers should take note of the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) final rule and interpretative guidance regarding the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”), recently issued on April 19, 2024. Effective last...more
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
On June 27, 2023, the Pregnancy Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”) went into effect requiring employers with 15 or more employees to provide “reasonable accommodations,” or changes at work, for a worker’s known limitations related...more
*And are sorry you asked. Last Friday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published its final regulations on the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The regulations will take effect on June 18, just under a year since...more
On April 15, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) Final Rule, scheduled to take effect on June 18, 2024. The Final Rule largely leaves in place the...more
This week, we’re breaking down the U.S. Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS’s) new workplace discrimination decision, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) final rule on the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), and how...more
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued its final regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The final rule was published in the Federal Register on April 19 and will go into...more
On April 15, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published much anticipated regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). These regulations will take effect in June...more
On April 15, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its final rule to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA)....more