Pregnancy Discrimination and Accommodation After the Pwfa

62 questions on pregnancy discrimination and accommodation after the pwfa, answered and cited by the UpLaw editorial team.

• Can a departing employee waive pregnancy-related claims?
• Can an employer make an employee take leave instead of accommodating her?
• Does an employee need magic words to trigger the PWFA duty?
• Does a small business have to comply?
• Does the FMLA allow an employer to penalize a technical misstep?
• How can automated hiring tools encode pregnancy bias?
• How can one pumping dispute generate three separate claims?
• How did the central question in pregnancy-at-work law change?
• How does a light-duty policy limited to on-the-job injuries expose the PDA gap?
• How does a Young plaintiff show pretext?
• How does disparate-impact theory reach pregnancy?
• How does state pregnancy accommodation law go beyond federal law?
• How does the good-faith defense turn the interactive process into a liability shield?
• How does the light-duty denial scenario resolve before and after 2023?
• How does the PDA govern employee benefits?
• How does the PWFA resolve the light-duty puzzle that Young made so hard?
• How do the five statutes stack across a single pregnancy?
• How do the Title VII damages caps work?
• How is a disparate-treatment PDA claim proved?
• How is the PWFA more protective than the ADA?
• Is a BFOQ ever available for pregnancy?
• Is a two-month delay a violation even without hostility?
• Must an employer accommodate a healthy, normal pregnancy, or only complications?
• Must PUMP Act breaks be paid, and how is the Act enforced?
• What are the concrete compliance moves during employment?
• What are the four predictable assessments?
• What asymmetry did the PWFA erase?
• What conditions does the EEOC's 2024 rule confirm are covered?
• What conduct does § 2000gg-1 make unlawful?
• What did Johnson Controls hold about fetal-protection policies?
• What does the FMLA provide for pregnancy and childbirth?
• What does the PUMP Act require?
• What does the PWFA require, in one sentence?
• What exactly did the Pregnancy Discrimination Act do?
• What framework did Young v. UPS create?
• What happens after the charge is filed?
• What is cat's-paw liability, and why is it a recurring trap?
• What is the administrative on-ramp for a PDA or PWFA claim?
• What is the FMLA's constitutional backstory, and why does it matter?
• What is the operating rule for a multistate employer?
• What is the status of the rule's abortion-accommodation provision?
• What is the watchword for employers, and what is it for workers?
• What is Young v. UPS not?
• What makes a termination four days after an announcement so vulnerable?
• What makes interview questions about pregnancy so dangerous?
• What mistake in General Electric Co. v. Gilbert did Congress correct?
• What remedies are available if liability is established?
• What weight does the EEOC's pregnancy enforcement guidance carry?
• What were the facts of Young v. UPS?
• When can a pregnancy-related condition be an ADA disability?
• When does treatment of pregnancy or breastfeeding become actionable harassment?
• When may an employer demand medical documentation under the 2024 rule?
• Which five federal statutes can protect one pregnant worker at the same time?
• Who are the proper comparators in a pregnancy case?
• Who is covered by the PDA, and who is left out?
• Why does retaliation deserve special billing in pregnancy cases?
• Why does the ADA still matter now that the PWFA covers ordinary pregnancy?
• Why do the FMLA's eligibility thresholds catch people off guard?
• Why is a handbook written before mid-2023 now a liability?
• Why is putting a cashier on unpaid leave "to be safe" a textbook PWFA violation?
• Why is termination the moment when most pregnancy claims are born?
• Why is the PDA's equal-treatment clause the hinge of the whole pre-PWFA debate?