by Cynthia Calvert | May 15, 2024 | Blog
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act hasn’t been in effect for even a year, but already employees are taking legal action alleging that their employers are not in compliance. Three areas that are giving some employers particular trouble arise because they are treating...
by Cynthia Calvert | May 15, 2024 | Insight Briefings
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...
by Cynthia Calvert | May 13, 2024 | Blog
I had a wonderful conversation last week with Karla Miller, Washington Post columnist. I have long admired her practical, compassionate, business-forward solutions to the workplace problems of employees and employers. We talked about a question she had received from a...
by Cynthia Calvert | May 2, 2024 | Challenge Solver
Challenge: “One of my employees has been back from parental leave for a month. She is breastfeeding her baby and needs to take breaks during the day to pump breast milk. She takes three breaks per day for about 30 minutes each time. When she is on break, her coworkers...
by Cynthia Calvert | Apr 25, 2024 | Insight Briefings
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...
