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The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will require agencies to offer reasonable accommodations to employees who have “known limitations” stemming from pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions. Here’s what agencies should know before the law takes effect on June 27.
After telling their supervisors they were pregnant, CBP employees alleged that they were involuntarily forced into temporary light duty (TLD) status. The discrimination case has now won class certification.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s latest guidance outlines promising practices for federal agencies to prevent and address harassment in the workplace.
A recent decision from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has allowed a lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force to move forward as a class action suit.
Work-life balance is one area in particular where agencies are starting to see signs of stagnation among their employees.
Federal agencies "overwhelmingly" see a lack of trust from employees in agency leadership to come to the table in good faith when resolving workplace disputes, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found in its latest report.
Equal employment opportunity disputes still occur in federal agencies. People feel wrongly discriminated against or they really are discriminated against for the wrong reasons.
Although agencies have made progress in promoting equal employment opportunities, the EEOC's latest federal workforce report shows that some inequities still exist in governmentwide workforce demographics.
Labor leaders called on the Biden administration to investigate the workplace practices of federal contractor Maximus, claiming the company systemically prevents call center staff, who are predominately Black and Latina women, from advancing their careers.
The State Department, settling a lawsuit spanning nearly two decades, is easing some restrictions that plaintiffs said unfairly denied people with disabilities entry into the Foreign Service.
The U.S. Postal Service, like many agencies, has to deal with sexual harassment complaints. According to the Postal Inspector General, while USPS handles them fairly well, it lacks data on how extensive the problem might be.
Close to a quarter of women employees at federal agencies have experienced sexual harassment, according to a report from the Merit Systems Protection Board. But the data used in the report is about six years old.
After months of planning and two council meetings, federal diversity leaders are hammering out more long-term changes to advance the Biden administration’s DEIA priorities.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) introduced the SHOW UP Act, which would require agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements.