Blog: PWFA

The PWFA protects current employees, former employees, and job applicants in every state, the District of Columbia, and the United States territories regardless of citizenship or immigration status. Transmen, genderqueer, and non-binary persons may become pregnant and experience the other medical conditions covered ...

“Reasonable accommodations“ are changes in the work environment or the way things are usually done at work. Some examples of possible reasonable accommodations under the PWFA include:

• Additional, longer, or more flexible breaks to drink water, eat, rest, or use the

To be a qualified employee under the PWFA, the worker must be able to perform all of the job's essential functions, either now or in the near future. The PWFA regulations defining “essential functions“ adopt the language used in the EEOC's ADA regulations. Thus, essential functions are fundamental ...

The PWFA statute lists five unlawful employment practices:

• Failing to make reasonable accommodations to the known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition of a qualified employee, unless the employer can demonstrate undue hardship
• Requiring a