Pregnancy Discrimination Amendment Act

Bill: 115-hr-5194
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2018-03-07
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: 2018-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-03-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Pregnancy Discrimination Amendment Act </b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">This bill 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 class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">The bill makes such treatment applicable to existing prohibited categories of employment discrimination on the basis of sex or because of sex. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5194 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 7, 2018 Mr. Walberg (for himself, Mrs. Noem , Ms. Jenkins of Kansas , Ms. Stefanik , and Mrs. Wagner ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 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 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 .