Employers that accommodate employees’ temporary disabilities should consider extending the practice to nursing mothers returning to work following maternity leave. That’s the lesson of a recent opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Hicks v. City of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 11th Cir., 9/7/2017) In Hicks, a City police department’s insistence that an officer return to the beat rather than to allowing her work a temporary desk job resulted in a substantial plaintiff verdict.
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Is There More to the Story About the New Mom Who Quit Her Job Because She Was Denied Access to a Lactation Room?
By Patrick Smith on
Posted in Human Resources Compliance
Last week a mother quit her job soon after returning from maternity leave because she claims her employer denied her access to a lactation room for three days (See Des Moines Register story here). Apparently, the employer had a lactation room on the premises as required by federal law. But, according to a complaint filed …