I’d have to see their job descriptions to know whether working while sitting was a reasonable accommodation. If the job was walking around a warehouse picking products or loading vans, it probably wasn’t. Lots of other jobs, maybe it would be.
So far, this is as far as I’ve gotten....
“The women are suing under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which forbids businesses that employ 15 or more workers from denying reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees.”
Are women who work for a company with less than 15 employees less pregnant than those who do not? I guess their feet and back do not hurt, they don’t have to go to the restroom more frequently, and never have to go to the doctor.
[Now I’ll go read the remainder of the article.]
If a woman takes a job that involves heavy lifting, then gets pregnant, how is an employer supposed to accommodate that? They’d have to give her a new job that doesn’t include lifting. But maybe there aren’t any.
First of all, I’d bet a jelly donut the facts of these cases aren’t nearly as cut-and-dried as the linked article would have you believe.
Second, the overarching result of this suit is Amazon will undertake a stealth policy to hire fewer women of childbearing age.
This is way men get paid more.
They don’t need so many accommodations.🤔
A company the size of Amazon, and they only managed to find four incidents???
A case of a lawyer thinking they can shakedown Amazon?