Pregnancy_Discrimination

Pregnancy Discrimination On October 31, 1978 the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which is an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, became law (Title VII, Sec 2000e.k). The intent of the amendment is to make it illegal for employers to discriminate against women for being pregnant or for reasons related to pregnancy. That means that if a pregnant woman can perform the duties of the job for which she is applying, or is already working, then conditions of employment are met and the pregnant woman must be considered equally among other employees or applicants. If an employee becomes pregnant and is unable to perform her usual duties because of the pregnancy, the employer must consider her a temporarily disabled employee, provided she meets the requirements of disability. Those requirements may include verification by a doctor that the employee is unable to perform her usual duties because of the pregnancy. The employer may offer light duty assignments, or the employee may be placed on disability or unpaid leave. However, the pregnant employee can legally work so long as she can continue to perform her job pregnancy, must, pregnant, employees, employee, medical, perform, leave, disability, same, duties, conditions, work, women, woman, vii, verizon, usual, unable, title, settlement, requirements, related, received, reasons, pregnancies, job, insurance, employer, eeoc, doctor, discriminate, denied, considered, between, because