EEOC Republican Slams ‘Needlessly Expansive’ Pregnancy Bias Rule

April 15, 2024, 10:00 PM UTC

EEOC Commissioner Andrea Lucas has voiced disapproval of the agency’s final regulations on the enforcement of a law meant to protect pregnant workers from bias and allow them accommodations, calling it overly broad in a lengthy statement.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published its final Pregnant Workers Fairness Act rules on Monday, leaving in place a definition of “related medical conditions” covered by the law’s provisions that includes abortion, along with pregnancy and childbirth.

Lucas, a Republican, said in her statement released shortly after the regulation was published that “the rule fundamentally errs in conflating pregnancy and childbirth accommodation with ...

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