On October 22, the House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services held a hearing entitled, "Long Over Due: Exploring the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act (H.R. 2694)." The bill was introduced in the House by Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) in May of this year. Introducing the hearing, Subcommittee Chair Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) of the House Education and Labor Committee characterized H.R. 2694 as taking "an important step to guarantee that pregnant women will get reasonable accommodations that will allow them to stay in the workplace." Her written testimony noted that "Women are increasingly either the primary or co-breadwinners of households, and as a result more pregnant workers work later into their pregnancies. In fact, research suggests that more than 80 percent of first-time mothers work until their final month of pregnancy."
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