{"id":551,"date":"2014-10-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/events-lindabury.blawgcloud.com\/2014\/10\/great-expectations-expanded-workplace-accommodations-available-to-pregnant-employees-under-lad-and-eeoc-guidance.html"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:29:02","slug":"great-expectations-expanded-workplace-accommodations-available-to-pregnant-employees-under-lad-and-eeoc-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/great-expectations-expanded-workplace-accommodations-available-to-pregnant-employees-under-lad-and-eeoc-guidance.html","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Employees To Get Expanded Workplace Accommodations Under LAD and EEOC Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January 2014, Governor Christie signed the Pregnant Worker\u2019s Fairness Act (PWFA), amending the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD)<\/a> to expressly prohibit workplace discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. On the federal side, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued an Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues (\u201cthe Guidance\u201d) on July 14, 2014, that reiterated i) the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Acts\u2019 prohibition against treating pregnant employees less favorably than non-pregnant individuals with respect to the terms and conditions of employment; and ii) the Americans With Disabilities Act\u2019s mandate that employers provide reasonable accommodation to women with pregnancy-related disabilities. While aspects of these pronouncements simply confirm the right to non-discrimination and reasonable workplace accommodations for pregnancy-related disabilities, there can be no doubt that these developments break new ground by extending the reasonable accommodation obligation to employee experiencing a normal pregnancy who is \u201caffected\u201d by her condition.<\/p>\n

THE PRIOR LEGAL LANDSCAPE<\/strong>: Prior to the PWFA and the EEOC Guidance, pregnant employees in the workplace were accorded protections under the following laws:<\/p>\n