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Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and other pregnancy accommodation laws. Our guest is Kameron Dawson, the senior staff attorney for A Better Balance, a legal advocacy organization.
A Better Balance produced a report called Long Overdue, which lays out the growing number of states that have passed pregnancy accommodations laws, many of them with bipartisan support and some unanimously.
The laws require companies to make reasonable accommodations, which Dawson says means “a medically necessary workplace change so that a worker can continue to do their job functions.”
That can be as simple as allowing a worker to have access to water or as complicated as setting aside time for women to pump breast milk. Dawson lays out the complicated web of factors involved in getting this right: There are safety, privacy and bias issues to consider when an employee is pregnant.
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