An unusually productive 2022 for employment legislation in Congress represents a shift for women in the workplace as businesses adapt their training and policies after the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and the #MeToo movement.
Congress passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the PUMP Act as part of the 2023 government funding bill late last year. The bills require employers to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees in the workplace, and expand protections and close employer loopholes for nursing parents who need to pump at work, respectively.
And earlier in the year, President Joe Biden signed bills that ended forced arbitration for sexual harassment and assault cases, and voided some nondisclosure agreements for workers making similar claims.
The bipartisan efforts to pass those bills are in part the result of cultural shifts focused on what women experience in the workplace after an exodus during the pandemic, and will push employers to be more proactive in ensuring protections for those workers, according to attorneys.
“I think that this is continuing legislation that needed bipartisan support at a federal level following the #MeToo movement, which was five years ago, and we’re finally seeing federal legislation addressing some of these real issues in the workplace,” said Nancy Gunzenhauser Popper, an employment attorney at Epstein Becker & Green PC...
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