Labor/Employment
Mar. 26, 2013
Employers' pregnancy leave obligations increase
A recent decision expanding disability benefits highlights just one of many recent changes to the state's pregnancy leave regulations that employment attorneys must explain to their clients.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Ann G. Fuentes Sanchez was due to give birth in three months when she ran out of pregnancy disability leave. On bed rest with a pregnancy-related condition called preeclampsia, Sanchez had been out of work for 19 weeks. Her employer, Swissport Inc., fired her when she could not come back to work after using up the fixed time allotted under California's Pregnancy Disability Leave Law. Sanchez sued, arguing ...
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