Something readers sometimes see in historical novels is that women lose their job when they’re pregnant. It’s was expected.
In the US, that started to change in 1978, thanks to the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. (Some had thought that it was made already illegal due to the ban on sex discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Alas.)
Since then, US employers have continued to try to prevent pregnant people from following doctors’ orders like “snack if you need to” and “drink more water” and “sit down sometimes”. Most recently, Walgreens told an employee whose doctor had told her to go get medical help that she couldn’t leave the store and keep her job.
She quit her job. She got medical attention. Now she also has an order for Walgreens to pay her $205,000 as part of a settlement between the EEOC and Walgreens.
The extremely frustrating thing is that this settlement – and Walgreens being required to change its management of pregnant employees – is needed.
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