HF 2255: Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making penalties applicable

What it does

This bill prohibits an employer from denying a reasonable accommodation to a known limitation related to the pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition of a job applicant or employee, unless the employer can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the employer. The bill prohibits an employer from requiring a job applicant or employee affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition to accept an accommodation to a known limitation related to the pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition of the applicant or employee that the applicant or employee chooses not to accept, if the accommodation is unnecessary to enable the applicant or employee to perform the job.

Lobbying · 4 for, 2 against

For: American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa (ACLU-IA); Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Iowa Conference of United Methodist Church; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO

Against: Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB /IA)

In plain words

1. February 6, 2020Filed in the House and sent to the Labor committee