In an article published by HR Dive, Randy Gepp was quoted regarding the laws surrounding pregnant employees and their employers. HR Dive’s article discussed a pregnant bartender being fired by a Texas restaurant after she stopped wearing her uniform. The restaurant was found in violation of pregnancy discrimination. According to Mr. Gepp, “…while [the PDA] doesn’t require accommodations itself, if an employer provides light duty or similar to employees on workers’ comp or with cancer, for example, the employer would have to provide similar accommodations to a pregnant employee.”
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Employers must treat pregnant women “the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work,” the PDA says
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