February 26, 2025
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Category: Disability, Accommodations, and Leaves

Eighth Circuit Rules States Have Standing To Challenge PWFA Regulations

A group of 17 states challenging regulations that require employers to reasonably accommodate employees seeking abortions may proceed with its lawsuit, a federal appeals court ruled February 20. In Tennessee v. EEOC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit found that the states had standing to sue because the EEOC’s rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would...
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September 16, 2024
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Category: Disability, Accommodations, and Leaves

EEOC Files First Lawsuit Under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed its first lawsuit alleging that an employer violated the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which took effect last year. In EEOC v. Wabash National Corp., filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, the EEOC alleges that a manufacturer of semi-trailers and commercial trucking equipment violated the PWFA by requiring...
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June 24, 2024
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Category: Disability, Accommodations, and Leaves

Federal Courts Reach Different Opinions in PWFA Pregnancy Accommodation Cases

Two federal district courts considering challenges to regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) have reached different conclusions regarding the statute’s application to workers having elective abortions. The regulations, issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), took effect June 18, 2024. In the first case, Tennessee v. EEOC (E.D. Ark. June 14, 2024), a federal district court in Arkansas...
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April 23, 2024
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Category: Comment Letter

CWC Comments to EEOC on PWFA Procedural Rules Urge Greater Transparency Re: Process Used

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, filed comments with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission endorsing EEOC’s recently revised procedural regulations as being consistent with the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The comments also express CWC’s concern that EEOC did not give the public an opportunity to comment until after it finalized the rules. The revisions...
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April 18, 2024
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Category: Disability, Accommodations, and Leaves

Divided EEOC Issues Expansive PWFA Interpretive Regulations, Inviting Legal Challenges

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued final regulations interpreting the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The PWFA, which became law in 2022, codifies the right to request reasonable accommodations for pregnancy-related limitations. The expansive implementing regulations adopted by the EEOC’s Democratic majority, which are similar to the proposed regulations published last August, are almost certain to be challenged in...
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March 05, 2024
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Category: Congress

Federal District Court in Texas Rules PWFA Not Lawfully Enacted, Enjoins Enforcement

A federal district court in Texas has ruled that the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) was not enacted lawfully because the House of Representatives did not have a quorum when it voted on the measure in late 2022. (The House had adopted a rule change in 2020 to temporarily allow proxy voting because of the COVID-19 pandemic.) The case is Texas...
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February 20, 2024
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

EEOC Revises Procedural Regulations To Incorporate Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published an interim final rule (IFR) that revises its procedural and administrative regulations to account for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which took effect in June 2023. The IFR essentially applies EEOC’s existing procedural and administrative rules for Title VII and the other laws that EEOC enforces to the PWFA. The...
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November 01, 2023
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Category: Disability, Accommodations, and Leaves

CWC’s New Online Resource Explains Requirements of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has uploaded its new online training resource related to the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which took effect in June. The online training guide, which is presented in the form of a “Scroll” consisting of several short modules, is available to CWC members at no extra cost on the...
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