A new law aimed at protecting pregnant employees’ health and job security could result in less women being hired or promoted, according to a policy expert at a libertarian think tank. 'A regulation like this, if it ends up being really costly for employers, it can change their hiring decisions and even potentially promotion decisions in ways that could actually exacerbate the gender pay gap,' the Cato Institute's director of family policy, Vanessa Brown Calder, said.
While some of the accommodations may be easy for employers to implement, like allowing someone whose job involves standing to sit, Calder said 'depending on the job and the industry, it can actually be quite difficult.' 'I think it's safe to say that suspending essential job functions for a worker is pretty much always going to be hard for any employer,' she added.
Disabled workers were fired at a lesser rate, but they were also hired at a lesser rate,' Calder said. 'So their ability to find a job was actually impaired.' Most employers already make changes to accommodate pregnant workers Calder said. But adding this sort of 'one-size-fits-all regulation,' forcing all companies to provide the same accommodations, 'you are doing employers a disservice, and you're actually doing pregnant workers a disservice as well.
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