Sentences with phrase «pregnant workers like»

Pregnant workers like Peggy Young at UPS have been expected to either keep doing the heavy lifting, or take leave.

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According to Young's Supreme Court petition, her manager told her that UPS offered light duty to workers who sustained on - the - job injuries, employees with ailments covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act, and those who had lost Department of Transportation certification because of physical aliments like sleep apnea; not — the manager said — to pregnant workers.

Under the law, employers have to provide pregnant workers with accommodations they need to keep working — like allowing them to eat or drink on the job, or reassigning them to a less physically demanding role — if they would provide similar accommodations for a worker with a disability.

The director founded his namesake Yogananth Andiappan Community (YAC) as a non-profit volunteer organization to teach yoga to groups like domestic workers, pregnant teens, autistic children, cancer patients, and more.

«At a fundamental level, workplace policies that are structured around an «ideal» worker who never gets pregnant, gives birth, or breastfeeds — in other words, a male worker — look an awful lot like institutionalized sexism,» Galen writes.

In addition, the school board claimed that the preventive withdrawal program is reserved for employees with a contract who are faced with unsafe work while pregnant and workers like Dionne have no employment contract between periods of supply teaching so they're not eligible.