Protecting You And Your Business
Pregnancy should never derail your professional success. With the implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), significant strides have been made to help ensure that pregnant individuals have the right to work without facing discrimination. Enacted to...
The realities of pregnancy can influence what work someone can do and can also (potentially and unfairly) harm their career. Although pregnancy discrimination, like sex discrimination in general, is against the law, many employers treat women differently in unlawful...
You were thrilled when you got a new job offer. After all, you had spent months going through the interview process. You know that you’re qualified and it’s a great job, and the employer offered a salary that certainly fits within your requests. You planned to take...
When you have a child on the way, you need career and financial stability more than ever. After all, you will soon be financially responsible for a completely dependent young person. Unfortunately, pregnancy can be a hard time to develop your career. Despite federal...
For the first few months of pregnancy, it can be a woman's secret. Unless she has serious symptoms, no one around her may notice her changing body. However, some time in the second trimester, it will often become impossible to hide a pregnancy. Under the law, pregnant...
Pregnancy discrimination in the workplace is an ongoing problem, but seldom is it as blatantly obvious as a recent situation involving a brokerage firm in Florida. In the case, a woman applied for a position with a Daytona brokerage firm. She went through multiple...
There are several federal laws in place - the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, to name a few - designed to protect workers who have to miss work because of any number of medical...