The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) takes effect on June 27, 2023. With the passage of the PFWA, private employers with at least 15 employees must make accommodations for pregnancies, not just pregnancy-related conditions rising to the level of disability. The accommodations include flexibl...
Worker's Rights In Washington State
As a Washington employee, you are entitled to worker's rights: several protections and benefits under State and Federal laws. Everyone deserves to be paid fairly, work free of discrimination and harassment, and perform their job in a safe work environment. Unfo...
Charlotte E. Ray defied overwhelming racial prejudice and sexism in 19th-century America to become the first practicing African-American female lawyer in the United States. Her story is a testament to how civil rights activism and education paved the way for Black Americans to become pioneers and ...
Firing pregnant workers who can’t perform certain job duties like lifting heavy objects is against the law. But that didn’t stop a pair of FedEx contractors from terminating pregnant delivery driver Sarai Alhasawi when she asked for accommodation during her pregnancy in 2018.
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When someone says they “don’t have enough time,” what they really mean is they don’t have time for the stuff they really want or need to do. But in the end, it's always a matter of reorganization. Nobody can create more time out of thin air. We’re all limited to a fixed 24 hours per day an...
Most of us know that women are paid less, on average, than their male counterparts for the same work. But one out of five women doesn’t negotiate their salary when they accept a job offer. Failing to negotiate a starting salary when you take that first job after graduation results in an averag...
Having kids typically makes it harder to advance in your career, according to overwhelming body of research.
According to a new poll, most U.S. workers feel that employers aren’t doing enough to support parents returning to their jobs after they take time off to raise children.
57% report ...
The home furnishing giant has just created one of the most generous paid parental leave policies in the retail sector.
We frequently hear how much better parental leave policies are in Europe, Canada, and…well just about everywhere in the world outside the U.S. But there are a growing number of ...
Even when writers have good intentions, they can’t escape gender bias, a new study shows.
Even scientists find objectivity to be tough. Because of unconscious gender bias, they are twice as likely to write outstanding letters of recommendation for men than for women, according to an extensi...
Recent studies indicate that breastfeeding moms aren’t getting the accommodation they need at work—although there's something they can do about it.
Pumping milk at work is one of the worst indignities of new motherhood. The woman is hiding away in some tiny windowless closet, breasts out,...