{"id":16376,"date":"2022-12-22T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T21:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=16376"},"modified":"2023-01-10T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:41:09","slug":"sen-ossoff-secures-bipartisan-support-to-protect-pregnant-workers-from-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-secures-bipartisan-support-to-protect-pregnant-workers-from-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Sen. Ossoff Secures Bipartisan Support to Protect Pregnant Workers from Discrimination<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Sen. Ossoff\u2019s championed bipartisan legislation to protect pregnant employees from workplace discrimination passes Senate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C. \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;Today, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff secured bipartisan support in the Senate to protect pregnant workers from discrimination in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtvm.com\/2021\/12\/10\/sen-jon-ossoff-pushes-bill-prohibit-pregnancy-discrimination\/\">year-long effort<\/a>\u00a0to gather Democratic and Republican support for the legislation, Sen. Ossoff successfully passed the bipartisan\u00a0<em>Pregnant Workers Fairness Act<\/em> through the Senate to strengthen workplace protections for pregnant workers in Georgia and nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill is expected to pass the House of Representatives later today and then be signed into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis bipartisan bill will ensure pregnant women in the workplace have the accommodations they deserve as they are expecting children. I brought Republicans and Democrats together to get this done,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bipartisan bill would ensure pregnant workers have access to reasonable accommodations in the workplace, by requiring employers to set workplace environment standards for their pregnant employees, including:&nbsp;<\/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 standing<\/li><li>Access to additional medical and personal breaks as needed<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ossoff\u2019s championed bipartisan legislation to protect pregnant employees from workplace discrimination passes Senate Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;Today, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff secured bipartisan support in the Senate to protect pregnant workers from discrimination in the workplace. After his\u00a0year-long effort\u00a0to gather Democratic and Republican support for the legislation, Sen. Ossoff successfully passed the bipartisan\u00a0Pregnant Workers Fairness [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16376","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/16376","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/16376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17020,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/16376\/revisions\/17020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}