Employment actions directed at a pregnant employee need to be documented as never before, as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has increased its surveillance of the way companies manage women who either are pregnant, say they intend to become pregnant, or have been pregnant.
The agency issued new guidance on the subject in July. This month, a Kenosha, Wisconsin, Merry Maids franchise owner got a taste of the enforcement effort the EEOC is pursuing.
V&B, a 20-employee company, according to the EEOC, fired a top-performing employee because of some "pregnancy issues [that] were alleged to be minor and did not prevent her from working," the agency said in a release.
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