Pregnant And Want A Workplace Accommodation? Forget It: ‘It’s Not Prison. You Can Quit!’
Get over it: pregnant women are a fact of workplace life.
Sometimes Being A Woman, At Work, Is Hard Work. Persist.
Employment lawyer Beth Robinson explores different types of gender bias in the workplace.
Private Practice Lawyers: Rater Your Work With In-House Counsel
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Big Win For Pregnant Women Who Temporarily Need To Sit Down
Roberts and Alito joined the liberals!
Non-Sequiturs: 12.26.13
* Let’s hit some lingering holiday stories that came in after we went off the air on Tuesday. Think of it as your Christmas hangover. First up, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, reimagined as a lesson on pregnancy discrimination. [Bolek Besser Glesius] * On a related note, here’s a nice chart comparing the original poem with the legalese version created by Dezert-Rose. [TaxProf Blog] * Well, that’s one thing you can do with law reporters in the age of Westlaw and Lexis. [Legal Cheek] * Isn’t it really nice of prosecutors when they actually try to fulfill their constitutional obligations? [Katz Justice] * A life lesson for these thieves: there’s no such thing as a Christmas tree that doesn’t shed. [Legal Juice] * The lawyers supposedly told NFL players they would not be taking any of the concussion settlement money. There’s a lesson to be had here about how you shouldn’t trust lawyers. [Overlawyered] * Professor Nancy Leong went on Ashley Madison with a “white” profile and an “Asian” profile. The Asian profile got more hits. Is this interesting? Sure. Is this the sort of academic work worth charging law students $180K to support? Not so much. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
Lathamed Secretary Alleges Pregnancy-Related Discrimination
This former secretary alleges that her supervisor said her pregnancy complications "were not his problem."