Business law

What Young vs. UPS Means for Pregnant Workers and Their Bosses

Companies that don’t become more accommodating may find themselves facing legal action.

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Joan C. Williams

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Joan C. Williams

March 26, 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court case decided this week makes it significantly more likely that pregnant women denied workplace accommodations will succeed in their legal claims against the employers who denied them.

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Liz Morris is the deputy director of the Center for WorkLife Law and an adjunct law professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Her research and advocacy focus on employment law, gender equality, and work-life balance.
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Cynthia Thomas Calvert is president of Workforce 21C, which assists employers with managing pregnant employees and employees with family responsibilities. She is also a senior advisor to the Center for WorkLife Law.
Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law at University of California-Hastings, the Hastings Foundation Chair, and the founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law. An expert on social inequality, she is the author of 12 books, including Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021) and White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019). To learn about her evidence-based, metrics-driven approach to eradicating implicit bias in the workplace, visit www.biasinterrupters.org.

What Young vs. UPS Means for Pregnant Workers and Their Bosses

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