Steps You Can Take to Prevent Pregnancy Discrimination at Work

How to Prevent Pregnancy Discrimination at Work
Attorney suggests five steps you can take to prevent pregnancy discrimination at work once you find out you’re expecting

 

The federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act makes it unlawful for an employer with 15 or more employees to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or a pregnancy-related condition. Federal law also makes it illegal to discriminate against pregnant women, or those with children, based on stereotypes.  For instance, an employer couldn’t decide not to give a job which requires a lot of travel to a pregnant woman based on the logic that “women with young children should be at home.” Penalizing women (or men) even for paternalistic reasons is illegal. Women that have difficult pregnancies resulting in health problems, including postpartum depression, may be protected by the American’s with Disabilities Act. Similarly, it is unlawful to retaliate against a woman for taking time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which applies to employers with 50 or more employees.

Here are five steps you can take to protect yourself at work:

Disney on Ice: Let’s Celebrate

Disney on Ice: Let’s Celebrate, April 2-6 2014

Join the celebration around the world as Disney’s favorite characters show you how to party from different countries and cultures. Disney on Ice: Let’s Celebrate features a grand Valentine’s Ball where all the princes and princesses are in attendance along with many of Disney’s classic villains. Have fun with Jack Skellington in Halloweentown then go all over the globe to Carnivale in Brazil, a luau in Hawaii, and the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan.

Disney on Ice: Let’s Celebrate is playing at the American Airlines Center April 2 – 6, 2014.

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Are You Losing the Diet Game?

Avoiding Common Dieting Mistakes

When trying to shed weight, many of us turn to fad diets and drastic calorie cutting and with the positive energy of new years resolutions in the past and the cold winter months still in full force, it is not surprising that February and March are the most common months for diet failure and “cheating” to occur. Experts at nationally recognized Pritikin Longevity Center have found that fad diets leave us not only hungry and miserable but often lead to setbacks and cheating that cause additional weight gain.