Title: Requires Accommodations for Employees During Pregnancy
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that requires accommodations for employees during pregnancy and childbirth.
Highlights:
Requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees during pregnancy and childbirth including, but not limited to, the following (Sec. 3):
More frequent or longer breaks;
Modification of equipment;
Performance of job while seated; and
Temporary transfer to a less hazardous position.
Requires employers to provide a private, clean, non-bathroom space for the purpose expressing breast milk (Sec. 3).
Requires employers not providing these accommodations to prove that doing so would present an undue burden to the employer (Sec. 3).