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Employment Law With Pregnancy In Houston
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After 26 weeks: There should be no extended work hours, with a 40-hour week being the maximum for the employee/patient. No travel further than 50 miles is allowed. Lifting is restricted to no more than 20 pounds.
Get a doctor's note and talk to hr. Pregnancy is a recognized and protected disability and your employer must provide reasonable accommodations. They will not provide them if you do not ask or bring them up. It is a benefit to them for you to not do so to make letting you go an easy paper trail away.
The PWFA requires “covered employers” to provide “reasonable accommodations” to an employee's known limitations due to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions unless the employer can prove “undue hardship” due to such accommodations.
If you're pregnant and lose your job through no fault of your own, you may be entitled to unemployment benefits. It's illegal for employers to discriminate against you based on pregnancy status.
Being pregnant doesn't shield you from being fired. Your employer cannot terminate you BECAUSE you're pregnant, but you still have to perform the assigned duties within the limits of your work restrictions.
It's called the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), and it grants expectant moms a bunch of benefits that can make a pregnancy journey a little easier — on the work front, at least. Among other things, pregnant women can ask for flexible hours and other reasonable accommodations.
In December 2022, President Biden signed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) into law. This federal law provides workers with the right to reasonable workplace accommodations to address temporary limitations due to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. The PWFA went into effect on June 27, 2023.
You may be able to get unemployment benefits in Oregon if you're suspended or fired from work, but it depends on why your employer fired you. You can't get benefits if your employer fired you for misconduct, like stealing from your job or missing a lot of work without a good reason.