Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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New law requires telework option for pregnant women

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act requires agencies to provide reasonable accommodations, from longer breaks to telework.

Federal Newscast

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FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table at a job fair in Hudson, N.Y. Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found. The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday, March 23, 2017, that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with high school degrees or less has triggered broad problems for this group. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Agencies navigating federal hiring challenges for employees with disabilities

Hiring/Retention

How diverse are the executives, managers and supervisors working in government?

Workforce

Pregnant workers can move forward with class lawsuit alleging discrimination at CBP

Workforce

60th anniversary March on Washington panelists share how their agencies are still working toward the original vision of the 1963 event.

Agencies moving forward on jobs and freedom: Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington

People

Join us Aug. 21: Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington

People

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The Senior Executive Service remains less diverse than the federal workforce overall

Workforce

Agencies have new hubs to post STEM, national security openings

Hiring/Retention

The ‘new-new’ normal? More agencies bumping up in-office work

Workforce

A mailbox is seen in Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

USPS faces higher bar to deny religious accommodation after SCOTUS sends ex-carrier’s case back to lower court

Workforce

EEOC’s 20% backlog of discrimination charges ‘alarming’ to GOP House lawmakers

Congress

What agencies and federal employees should know about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will require agencies to offer reasonable accommodations to employees who have “known limitations” stemming from…

Workforce Rights/Governance

Pregnant CBP employees involuntarily placed on ‘light duty,’ allege systematic discrimination

After telling their supervisors they were pregnant, CBP employees alleged that they were involuntarily forced into temporary light duty (TLD) status. The…

Workforce Rights/Governance

Agency leadership is ‘pivotal’ for effective anti-harassment policies

Workforce

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s latest guidance outlines promising practices for federal agencies to prevent and address harassment in the workplace.