Pregnancy Discrimination Amendment Act

Bill: 114-s-1590
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2015-06-17
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Women's employment

Women's health
Latest action: action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-06-17
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Pregnancy Discrimination Amendment Act</b></p> <p>Amends provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that protect against pregnancy discrimination in the workplace to provide for women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions to be treated the same for all employment-related purposes as any other persons who are applicants for employment with, or employees of, the same employer in work that is performed under similar working conditions and who are not so affected but are similar in their temporary ability or inability to work.</p> <p>Makes such treatment applicable to existing prohibited categories of employment discrimination on the basis of sex or because of sex.</p> <p>Prohibits this treatment from permitting a labor organization to cause an employer to commit an unlawful employment practice against an employee in violation of such provisions.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1590 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 17, 2015 Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Mr. Alexander , Mrs. Fischer , Mr. Kirk , and Mr. Grassley ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide protections against pregnancy discrimination in the workplace, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pregnancy Discrimination Amendment Act . 2. Protections against pregnancy discrimination in the workplace Section 701(k) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( 42 U.S.C. 2000e(k) ) is amended— (1) in the first sentence, by striking as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability and inserting as any other applicants for employment with, or employees employed by, the same employer, in work that is performed under similar working conditions, who are not so affected but similar in their temporary ability ; and (2) by inserting after the first sentence the following: This subsection shall not permit any labor organization, or agent of such labor organization, representing employees of an employer having employees subject to any provision of this title, directly or through any collective bargaining agreement (agreed to by the labor organization, or agent of such labor organization, and such employer), to cause or attempt to cause such employer to commit an unlawful employment practice against an employee in violation of this subsection. .