Insight Briefings
In-Depth Summaries of Essential Topics
Our Insight Briefings provide HR with in-depth information about issues relating to pregnant, parenting, and caregiving employees. They bring together legal requirements, social psychology research, management principles, and best practices. We will be adding more Insight Briefings – we would love your feedback and topic suggestions.
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: Accommodation Ideas, Cautions, and Tips
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act changed employers’ decisions from whether an employee should be accommodated to how they should be accommodated. Almost all conditions related to pregnancy – morning sickness, back pain, fatigue, lactation, lifting restrictions,...
Medical Documentation and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
When an employee comes to you with a request for a pregnancy accommodation, your first instinct may be to reach for your Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations packet, including a medical form for the employee’s doctor to fill out that details the employee’s...
A Step Toward Preventing Caregiver Discrimination: Work Coverage Plans
Jill Traxler says that when she went out on leave to care for her mother, her supervisor in the Multnomah County government told her that her absences had caused a lot of things to be left undone and people had to cover her work while she was gone; she was terminated...
What HR Needs to Know about Caregiver Discrimination
Overview Caregiver discrimination, also called Family Responsibilities Discrimination (FRD), is discrimination against employees because they care for family members. Caregiving employees include mothers and fathers of young children, pregnant and lactating employees,...
