Looming US rule changes may curb pregnant worker supports [View all]
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Source: Reuters
January 27, 2026 8:45 PM EST Updated 11 hours ago
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Nearly three months pregnant, Kennisha just needed to sit down.
As assistant manager at a Sonic fast-food outlet on the outskirts of Dayton, Ohio, she sat on the only chair available to employees to ease her nausea, according to a complaint filed on Monday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
Sonic allegedly denied her request around Thanksgiving to occasionally sit on the one chair other employees used for smoke breaks. She quit and started work elsewhere, with a few months left in her pregnancy. "It does feel good to have a new job, but it's still in the back of my mind now," said Kennisha, who asked to be identified by her first name only due to fear of retaliation. Inspire Brands, Sonic's parent company, did not provide a comment.
COMMISSION CHAIR MAY NARROW RULE
The 2022 law requires employers to reasonably accommodate pregnant workers under EEOC regulations. But those rules may dramatically change under Republican EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas, who said in 2024 the regulations were written too broadly. Now, as chair since November and with a Republican majority on the commission, she has already begun a top-down makeover of the agency to reflect "a conservative view of civil rights," she told Reuters exclusively in December.
The final rules were written broadly to include as many scenarios as possible, experts and lawyers say. Any narrowing of the rules may expose pregnant workers to discrimination or deny them financial remedies in court, they said.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/looming-pregnant-worker-rule-changes-poised-curb-accommodations-2026-01-27/
They Xtian nationalists don't want women in the workplace. They want them in the kitchen or flat on their backs ready to pop out babies (of the right race).
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