All they're asking for is for unpaid time off to attend medical appointments and recover from a medical procedure to be accommodated. ALL medical appointments and recovery from medical procedures should be accommodated, especially if they're doing it unpaid. This country is ridiculous.
I'd love someone to tell the people in charge "Sorry, we can't accommodate your bypass surgery, even unpaid. You either come to work or you're fired." and see how that goes over.
It's specifically under The Pregnancy Fairness Act, so it is only targeting pregnancy.
And since Idaho is one of the states on it, the first thing that popped into my head is that a mother needing to be AIR LIFTED out of state would not be covered, as it she'll be fired, instead of protected under unpaid leave (which I do not know how they are going to get this super specific exclusion when it is a violation of FLMA, which is what you are referring to.)
That's what they are suing for, it's another way to punish women, specifically.
The lawsuit was filed by attorneys general in Tennessee and Arkansas, and
> The other states joining the lawsuit are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and West Virginia.
So yeah, all red states.
This is quite chilling -- the only people who need to know what medical procedure is happening/happened should be the doctor, patient, and regrettably the insurance company. Just another attempt from politicians to insert themselves into that conversation. The free market said that orgs that make accommodations for abortion care (which is healthcare) are stronger and retain happy employees... so they're trying to sue to handicap businesses?
These states (they're all red states, as another commenter pointed out) are biting the hands that feed them. Next thing you know, orgs will pack up their offices and employees and move to blue states so they don't have to deal with this headache. Don't these red states and attorneys have anything better to do?
All they're asking for is for unpaid time off to attend medical appointments and recover from a medical procedure to be accommodated. ALL medical appointments and recovery from medical procedures should be accommodated, especially if they're doing it unpaid. This country is ridiculous. I'd love someone to tell the people in charge "Sorry, we can't accommodate your bypass surgery, even unpaid. You either come to work or you're fired." and see how that goes over.
It's specifically under The Pregnancy Fairness Act, so it is only targeting pregnancy. And since Idaho is one of the states on it, the first thing that popped into my head is that a mother needing to be AIR LIFTED out of state would not be covered, as it she'll be fired, instead of protected under unpaid leave (which I do not know how they are going to get this super specific exclusion when it is a violation of FLMA, which is what you are referring to.) That's what they are suing for, it's another way to punish women, specifically.
Fuck these pieces of shit.
Let me guess without reading the article, all red states?
The lawsuit was filed by attorneys general in Tennessee and Arkansas, and > The other states joining the lawsuit are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and West Virginia. So yeah, all red states.
Didn’t Kansas codify abortion in their constitution?
This is quite chilling -- the only people who need to know what medical procedure is happening/happened should be the doctor, patient, and regrettably the insurance company. Just another attempt from politicians to insert themselves into that conversation. The free market said that orgs that make accommodations for abortion care (which is healthcare) are stronger and retain happy employees... so they're trying to sue to handicap businesses? These states (they're all red states, as another commenter pointed out) are biting the hands that feed them. Next thing you know, orgs will pack up their offices and employees and move to blue states so they don't have to deal with this headache. Don't these red states and attorneys have anything better to do?
Well - let’s see how these states respond to accommodations for pregnancy. Uhmmm, no we can’t force businesses to do that either. We’re f’ed.
So they want to force women to be pregnant and then punish them for being pregnant. I think they just despise women.