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Pregnancy in the Workplace: Understanding the New Laws on Accommodations for Pregnancy and Lactation

SKU: EMP8100
Total Credits
1 - 1.22
Price$50
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Description

If you thought you understood your obligations from a legal perspective of handling a pregnant employee in your workplace, think again. The rules are changing so quickly it is often hard to keep up.

This CLE will answer your most important questions on this topic such as whether you even have to accommodate a pregnant employee since a normal pregnancy is not a “disability” within the meaning of the ADA/ADAAA. What laws come into play when an employee requests to be able to take more frequent breaks due to her pregnancy as a reasonable accommodation? What obligations do employers have under the recently enacted Pregnant Workers Fairness Act with regard to providing pregnant employees with reasonable accommodations? In addition to this important federal law, what states and municipalities have passed laws that affirmatively require employers to provide reasonable accommodations to their pregnant employees? What guidelines has the EEOC issued requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees based on all those pregnancy-related conditions that pregnant women have like gestational diabetes or hypertension. What about after a pregnant employee gives birth and needs to nurse her child? What laws come into play at this point? What are your obligations under the PUMP Act? Do states and municipalities also have laws and regulations protecting nursing moms in the workplace?

Are you familiar with the NYC recently issued Model Lactation Accommodation Policies and Request Forms. Even though New York State has required that employers provide reasonable break time to nursing employees for a while, did you know that NYC just passed a law requiring that employers in NYC provide employees with lactation accommodations, including a lactation room where employees can pump/express breast milk, and reasonable time to pump/express breast milk. Do you know your obligations under this law and other laws requiring reasonable break time for nursing moms to express breast milk in the workplace? Do employers need to have a written lactation policy that is compliant with these recently-enacted laws? Learn what your Lactation Policy should include and see a sample draft lactation policy.

Lecturer Bio

Melissa Fleischer, Esq.

Melissa Fleischer, Esq., is a sought-after employment law attorney and HR advisor, having utilized her 20 years of law practice experience specializing in employment discrimination litigation to form HR Learning Center LLC, an HR consulting firm that specializes in providing workplace solutions to employers on a wide range of legal and human resource management issues. Ms. Fleischer provides preventative counseling and proactive training on a wide-range of employment law issues to help employers achieve legal compliance and reduce litigation costs.

Ms. Fleischer is a management-side employment attorney and is nationally recognized as an expert in her field. Ms. Fleischer has successfully represented numerous clients in employment discrimination litigation as well as providing preventive counseling and training on workplace issues. Ms. Fleischer was previously associated with Epstein Becker & Green in NYC.

Through HR Learning Center, Ms. Fleischer provides on-site training seminars and on-line training webinars and consulting on a wide range of workplace and human resource issues including sexual harassment, disabilities, diversity, discrimination, workplace violence, employee use of social media, job descriptions, employee handbooks, workplace investigations, FLSA misclassification and independent contractor status, information privacy and security, and HR records management. She also offers compliance training on the major employment laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, including exempt and non-exempt worker classifications and the National Labor Relations Act. She presents seminars, leads webinars and workshops, and is a frequent lecturer on these and other HR management and legal topics.

Ms. Fleischer served as a chapter editor for the Family and Medical Leave Act Treatise, published by the Bureau of National Affairs. She also served as an Editor for HRExpert, an on-line legal resource for attorneys and HR Professionals. Ms. Fleischer is an adjunct faculty member with the Professional Development Center at SUNY/Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Ms. Fleischer earned her J.D. degree from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., and her B.A., cum laude, from New York University.



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