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...
When Employees Don’t Have Childcare
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...
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...