Resources
Model Forms and Policies
Looking for practical tools that can help you improve your current effectiveness in managing pregnant, parenting, and caregiving employees? These sample forms developed in partnership with WorkLife Law, can help your HR team to start asking the right questions and start developing initiatives that better support caregiving employees.
Insight Briefings
Our Insight Briefings bring together legal requirements, social psychology research, management principles, and best practices to provide HR with in-depth information about issues relating to pregnant, parenting, and caregiving employees.
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...
Key Federal & State Laws
Staying on the right side of the law has become more difficult with the passage of new laws and expansive interpretation of existing laws. The laws overlap, requiring careful coordination. We can help you figure out which federal, state, and local laws apply to your organization and chart a practical course for compliance.
Our Latest Challenge Solver
“But That Would Create a Precedent!”
Challenge: “One of our employees is pregnant and has severe, all-day morning sickness. She wants to work from home and her job is one that can be done remotely. But HR is saying no because it doesn't want to set a precedent. Many employees want to work from home and...
Our Latest Blog Posts
Update Your Employee Handbook Now: 18 Changes Required by the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
By now, you probably know about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the new requirements for pregnancy accommodation. Maybe your employee handbook even has a pregnancy accommodation policy that incorporates the PWFA’s requirements. (If not, here’s a model pregnancy...
Answering Employers’ Questions about PWFA
I just listened to a very good webinar by Constangy’s Brooke Nixon about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Participants submitted many thoughtful questions. I’m going to expand on Nixon’s answers to some of them here. Q: When can medical documentation be requested...
Selected Studies
- Caring Locally for Caregivers: How State and Local Laws Protect Family Caregivers from Discrimination at Work, by Cynthia Thomas Calvert and Jessica Lee (AARP Public Policy Institute, 2021)
- Protecting Parents During Covid-19: State and Local FRD Laws Prohibit Discrimination at Work, by Cynthia Thomas Calvert (2020)
