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.
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,...
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
My Employees Are Complaining about a Co-Worker’s Pumping Breaks
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...
Our Latest Blog Posts
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: Handling a Request for Accommodation
I am grateful to HBR for publishing the article I wrote with Liz Morris of the Center for WorkLife Law about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. There is an urgent need to inform employers about the new law because many are unintentionally violating the law. The...
3 PWFA Mistakes Employers Are Already Making – and How to Fix Them
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...
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)
