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Supreme Court Clarifies Pregnancy Discrimination Act Claims in Young v. UPS

Kollman & Saucier

03/26/2015

Employment Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination

On March 26, 2015, the Supreme Court announced its decision in Young v. UPS, setting forth a new standard for how employees may prove a claim of pregnancy discrimination under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 575 U.S. ____ (2015). In Young, the Court faced the issue of how to interpret the second clause of the PDA, which states: women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions...

Kollman & Saucier

10/31/2014

Pregnancy Discrimination, Supreme Court Decisions

In advance of the Supreme Court's oral argument on a former employee's pregnancy discrimination case (Young v. UPS, Inc., U.S. No. 12-1226), United Parcel Service (UPS) has announced that, effective, January 1, 2015, it will make light duty available to pregnant workers with lifting or other restrictions on the same level as it offers to employees who need light duty because of worker's compensation injuries. In explaining this change in protocol,...

Kollman & Saucier

07/16/2014

Pregnancy Discrimination

For the first time since 1983, and partly addressing issues pending before the U.S. Supreme Court (see Alex Berg’s July 9 blog titled, “Supreme Court Will Decide What Accommodations Employers Must Make For Pregnant Employees”), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) on Monday issued new enforcement guidelines on pregnancy discrimination under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (“PDA”) that also cover possible workplace...

Kollman & Saucier

07/09/2014

Disability & Leave, Pregnancy Discrimination, Supreme Court Decisions

Until recently, the United Parcel Service (UPS) utilized the well-known slogan, “What can brown do for you?” After deciding last Monday to hear Young v. UPS during its next term, the Supreme Court will be faced with the question of “what brown must do” for its pregnant employees under federal law. (The Fourth Circuit’s decision and the briefs filed in the case (to date) can be found here.) In Young, the plaintiff, Peggy Young, was covered...

Kollman & Saucier

05/07/2014

Disability & Leave, FMLA, Pregnancy Discrimination

An employee’s potential increased day-care costs are not a pregnancy-related condition requiring accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to a federal district judge in Minnesota. As a result, a city police department was not required to accommodate a request by a pregnant employee for a swapped time-shift. McCarty v. City of Eagan, No. 0:12-cv-02512 (D. Minn. Apr. 28, 2014). Brea McCarty worked her way up to the...

Garrett Wozniak

04/10/2014

Disability & Leave, Pregnancy Discrimination, State Law

The 2014 session of the Maryland General Assembly came to a close Monday night, ending a 90-day term in which state lawmakers passed numerous laws, including legislation raising the state’s minimum wage. Maryland’s minimum wage will increase to $8/hour on January 1, 2015, and gradually rise to $10.10/hour in 2018. Included among the State’s new laws is the Parental Leave Act, which requires certain employers to provide unpaid parental leave...

Kollman & Saucier

01/13/2014

Agency Activity, Pregnancy Discrimination

As we have previously reported, on October 1, 2013, the Reasonable Accommodations for Disabilities Due to Pregnancy Act took effect for Maryland employers who have 15 or more employees. The new law requires that, unless an employer can show undue hardship, it must provide pregnant employees with various categories of accommodations upon request, including: changing the employee’s job duties; changing the employee’s work hours; relocating the...

Kollman & Saucier

01/04/2014

Disability & Leave, Employment Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently held that a nursing home’s policy of accommodating only restrictions from work-related incidents could be pretext for pregnancy discrimination. Latowski v. Northwoods Nursing Center, No. 12-2408 (6th Cir. Dec. 23, 2013). Jennifer Latowski was employed as a certified nursing assistant (“CNA”) by Northwoods Nursing Center in Michigan. Her doctor recommended a 50-pound lifting...

Clifford Geiger

12/13/2013

Pregnancy Discrimination

A federal judge recently denied Weight Watchers’ attempt to dismiss a Pregnancy Discrimination Act lawsuit filed against it by the EEOC. EEOC v. The WW Group, Inc., d/b/a Weight Watchers, Case 2:12-cv-11124 PDB-MAR (E.D. Mich. Dec. 2, 2013). The suit claims that the company did not permit Wendy Lamond-Broughton (“Broughton”) to apply for a job because she was pregnant. The company defended on the grounds that Broughton was not...

Kollman & Saucier

09/19/2013

Agency Activity, Employment Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination, Reasonable Accommodations/Undue Burden

Beginning on October 1, 2013, Maryland employers with 15 or more employees will have to comply with Maryland’s Reasonable Accommodations for Disabilities Due to Pregnancy Act. As previously reported in The Employment Brief, the new law requires employers to explore “all possible means” of providing reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees, and also establishes new notice requirements. However, employers do not have to make an...

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Supreme Court Clarifies Pregnancy Discrimination Act Claims in Young v. UPS

UPS To Deliver Light Duty To Pregnant Employees

EEOC Issues Enforcement Guidance on Pregancy Discrimination

Supreme Court Will Decide What Accommodations Employers Must Make for Pregnant Employees

City Not Required to Accommodate Employee’s Financial Stresses Under the ADA

Parental Leave Act Passed by Maryland General Assembly

Maryland Commission on Civil Rights Issues Poster for New Pregnancy Discrimination Law

Nursing Home's Limited Accommodations Deemed Unlawful Pregnancy Discrimination

Weight Watchers Thrown for a Loss in EEOC Lawsuit

Reminder to Maryland Employers: Reasonable Accommodations For Disabilities Due To Pregnancy Act Takes Effect October 1st

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