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Congress passed Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and PUMP Act. Accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions. Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act amendment to Fair Labor Standards Act FLSA one year after birth.

On December 29, 2022, through the Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Spending Bill, President Biden signed into law the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act PWFA and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act PUMP Act.

President Biden signed into law the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act PWFA and the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act PUMP Act. These relatively unknown laws are important pieces of legislation carrying with them significant changes to the workplace for pregnant employees.

Effective December 29, 2022 Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act PUMP Act expanded protections for breastfeeding mothers and, effective June 2023, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act PWFA will provide new protections for pregnant employees.

Covered Louisiana employers already have a general duty to reasonably accommodate an employee’s physical limitations caused by her pregnancy, unless the employer can demonstrate the accommodation would pose an undue hardship on the operation of its business.

President Biden signed into law two laws protecting pregnant and nursing mothers. The two laws are the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections or Nursing Mothers Act. Each of these Acts provides new, additional protections to pregnant women.