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Two federal laws enacted in December—the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the PUMP Act—place new requirements on employers to accommodate pregnant and nursing mothers in the workplace, including, for the first time, many exempt employees.
Related: DOL is enforcing new PUMP Act for breastfeeding workers
"The reason why this legislation is so monumental," said Melinda Koster, a partner at Sanford Heisler Sharp and a co-chair of the firm's discrimination and harassment practice group, "is that, up until it was passed at the end of last year, there had been no federal legislation requiring employers to provide pregnant workers with accommodations related to pregnancy. Title VII and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act did not require employers to take affirmative steps to accommodate pregnant women."
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