a report by Nicole Knight | Feb 8, 2017, 2:33pm
….nevertheless, a republican lawmaker has decided that the remedy for women who are denied on-the-job pregnancy accommodations is that they should just quit.
Rep. Wayne H. Steinhauer (R-Minnehaha) was on a panel of state lawmakers, all men, who voted 8 to 3 Monday to shelve a bill requiring reasonable workplace accommodations during and after pregnancy, including frequent or longer breaks, modified work schedules, and private non-bathroom space for breastfeeding.
“It’s not prison. You can quit,”
Steinhauer, a business owner, said during a Monday hearing of the House Commerce and Energy Committee on the bill, HB 1120.
“You’ve got a choice every day. You make a choice whether you come to work. And I’m here to tell you, if a person’s not allowing you to breastfeed at work or making appropriate accommodations at work, we can pass this law, but you don’t want to work for that guy.
Get the heck out of there.”
..see, it’s all about free choice. So many choices with these republicans.
The federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978 outlawed pregnancy discrimination, but some employers fall short of accommodating the needs of pregnant workers.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently held in Young v. United Parcel Service that employers that fail to accommodate pregnant workers with medical needs violate the PDA..
..and “liberty”…
But real family values for actual women ?… not so much