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EEOC Initiates Initial String of Lawsuits Under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has initiated enforcement of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) following the release of its final rule and interpretative guidance in April 2024. We previously...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

EEOC’s Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Faces Legal Challenges: Key Takeaways for Employers

Within the last two weeks of June 2024, courts across the country reached opposite conclusions about the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s authority to implement legislation that requires employers to provide...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

EEOC Issues Final Rule Regarding Pregnancy Discrimination

On April 19, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”) published a final rule and interpretive guidance (“Final Rule”) to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”), effective June 18, 2024. ...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

EEOC Issues Final Rule Implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

On April 15, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its Final Rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The Final Rule will go into effect on June 18, 2024, nearly a year after the...more

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EEOC Releases Final Rule on Pregnant Worker Protections, Updated Guidance on Worker Harassment

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In April, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released two long-awaited final documents aimed at strengthening worker protections: the final rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA, or...more

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Changes in Workplace Protections: EEOC’s Finalized Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Regulations and New York State’s Paid Prenatal...

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Recent legislative developments at both the federal and state levels have extended workplace protections for pregnant individuals and new parents. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued a final regulation...more

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EEOC Publishes Final Rule on Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

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On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) published its final rule and interpretive guidance (“Final Rule”) implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”). The Final Rule clocks in...more

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EEOC’s Final Rule Regarding Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

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On April 15, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) Final Rule, scheduled to take effect on June 18, 2024. The Final Rule largely leaves in place the...more

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EEOC Final Rule Implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

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On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or the “Commission”) published its final rule (“Final Rule”) and interpretive guidance to implement the  Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The...more

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EEOC Issues Final Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Regulations

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has finalized its regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”), which went into effect last summer. After issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in August...more

Bowditch & Dewey

EEOC Publishes Final Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Regulations

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On April 19, 2024, the EEOC published its final rule Implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”), which will take effect on June 18, 2024 (the “Final Rule”). The Final Rule details how employers are required...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: EEOC Issues Final Rule To Implement New Law Protecting Pregnant Workers

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On April 15, 2024, the EEOC issued its final regulation and interpretive guidance (“PWFA Regulations”) for the enforcement of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”), a law that took effect in June 2023. The PWFA...more

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EEOC Releases its Final Rule for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Covering a Broad Range of Accommodations

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This week the EEOC issued its final rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which went into effect in June 2023. The PWFA requires employers with 15 or more employees to provide reasonable accommodations...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

It’s the Final Countdown – The Final PWFA Regs Are Here

It has been a long road to this point, but the final Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) regulations are here. We first blogged in early 2023 about the PWFA, which became effective in June 2023, and again last August when...more

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EEOC Releases Expansive Final Regulations to Implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

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The PWFA, which has been in force since June 27, 2023, expands protections for qualified individuals in the workforce by requiring employers with 15 or more employees to make reasonable accommodations for known limitations of...more

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The EEOC Issues its Final Rule about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

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On April 15, 2024, the EEOC issued its final rule regarding the implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (the “PWFA”), a law that went into effect on June 27, 2023. The final rule will be officially published in...more

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OFCCP Updates Guidance on Sex Discrimination to Reflect Modern Workplace

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On June 15, 2016 the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) published its Final Rule updating federal contractor requirements to ensure nondiscrimination on the basis of sex in the...more

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OFCCP Issues New Rule Regarding Sex Discrimination For Federal Contractors

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On June 14, 2016, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced publication of a Final Rule in the Federal Register that sets forth the requirements that covered contractors must meet under the...more

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OFCCP Submits Final Sex Discrimination Regulations to OMB for Review and Approval

Earlier this year, we reported that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) issued a proposed rule to revise and replace the sex discrimination guidance it issued in 1970 and clarify federal contractors’...more

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