{"id":10520,"date":"2021-12-10T16:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=10520"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:35:25","slug":"sen-ossoff-pushing-bipartisan-legislation-to-protect-pregnant-workers-from-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-pushing-bipartisan-legislation-to-protect-pregnant-workers-from-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Pushing Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Pregnant Workers from Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working to protect pregnant workers from discrimination in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff is pushing to pass the bipartisan&nbsp;<em>Pregnant Workers Fairness Act&nbsp;<\/em>to ensure pregnant workers have a clear-cut right to reasonable accommodations in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis bipartisan push to strengthen workplace protections for women is one of my highest priorities,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employers would be required to make reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Access to food or water on the job where otherwise prohibited<\/li><li>The ability for a worker to sit instead of otherwise standing<\/li><li>Access to additional breaks as needed<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here to read the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/bills\/s1486\/BILLS-117s1486rs.pdf\"><em>Pregnant Workers Fairness Act<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working to protect pregnant workers from discrimination in the workplace. Sen. Ossoff is pushing to pass the bipartisan&nbsp;Pregnant Workers Fairness Act&nbsp;to ensure pregnant workers have a clear-cut right to reasonable accommodations in the workplace. \u201cThis bipartisan push to strengthen workplace protections for women is one of my highest [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10520","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10522,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10520\/revisions\/10522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}