Let me tell you a story about a current pregnant client who’s enduring wild discriminatory hostility just because she’s with child. I discuss what her (and your) rights are under the pregnancy protective federal and state statutes. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-tuckner/message ..read more

Under federal and most state and city anti-discrimination laws, almost ALL employers are required to show compassion and flexibility* to its pregnant employees during their pregnancies, after their babies are born, and even after they return to work and require accommodations for lactation and breast feeding purposes. Any differential or hostile workplace treatment because of pregnancy is illegal sex, gender, and pregnancy discrimination and often disability discrimination, too. Document in writing any requests for flexibility and pregnancy-related accommodations, as well as complaints about d ..read more

If you're treated differently in the workplace because of pregnancy throughout your gestational cycle, including through maternity leave and your return to work, it's illegal sex, gender, pregnancy and often disability discrimination. This sex-based differential treatment includes failure to promote because of pregnancy. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-tuckner/message ..read more

YES!  You ARE entitled to breastfeed your baby and/or pump breast milk in the workplace postpartum, for one year after childbirth under federal law and for three years after childbirth under New York and Connecticut laws, and ALL 50 states have their own laws on breastfeeding and expressing milk at work.  Listen to a brief summary of your lactation rights presented by Jack Bryant Tuckner, Esq., Women's Rights in the Workplace lawyer based in New York. Find your particular state law on postpartum breastfeeding and milk pumping at work at this link.  Jack Tuckner can be reached fo ..read more

There are a mix of confusing federal and state laws governing maternity leave, but the bottom line? YOU ARE ENTITLED TO MATERNITY LEAVE. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-tuckner/message ..read more

Pregnancy discrimination cases are on the rise again, in part because federal, state, and city laws have expanded pregnant employees’ workplace rights. Learn what to do initially to ensure the greatest protection against unlawful and sexist pregnancy discrimination. (spoiler alert, it involves written notification to your company)! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-tuckner/message ..read more

Most employee rights pregnancy discrimination attorneys will take your case on a contingent-fee basis, meaning that they’ll only get paid if and when the case resolves. Join Jack and Deborah and learn what to look for when hiring a lawyer for your pregnancy discrimination claim. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-tuckner/message ..read more

I’m pregnant, due in May and incredibly anxious about giving birth in a NYC hospital during this coronavirus crisis. I’m having a hard time concentrating at work and my boss is harassing me. Do I have any recourse? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-tuckner/message ..read more

Coronavirus and pregnant employees: Workplaces are imploding, employees are being laid off, and pregnant women have been told to take an early maternity leave, for their own safety, and they have been fired due to their pregnancies, as they’re perceived as more vulnerable—either way, it’s illegal. You can’t be fired because of anything to do with your pregnancy, and your employer cannot force an early maternity leave. That decision is yours alone. Pregnancy discrimination is illegal. Even during a pandemic. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-tuckner/messa ..read more

Even 42 years after the enactment of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, companies still mess with women’s lives and careers during pregnancy and after childbirth because employers resent women for “choosing” to bear a child, as the known limitations of pregnancy and maternity leave aren’t profitable to your company. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!—as your company won’t otherwise protect you—they likely don’t even know what their obligations are. You are entitled to job flexibility and work modifications, and a work environment free from sex and pregnancy-based hostility. Document your pregnancy in writing be ..read more