HF 676: Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making penalties applicable

What it does

This bill requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations to an employee based on medical conditions related to the employee’s pregnancy or childbirth if the employee requests reasonable accommodations with the advice of the employee’s health care provider. Penalty provisions for discriminatory employment practices are made applicable to a failure to provide such reasonable accommodations to an employee. The bill defines “reasonable accommodations” as actions which would permit an employee with a medical condition relating to the employee’s pregnancy or childbirth to perform in a reasonable manner the activities involved in the employee’s specific occupation and include but are not limited to the provision of an accessible worksite, acquisition or modification of equipment, job restructuring, and a modified work schedule.

Lobbying · 3 for, 0 against

For: IBEW Iowa State Conference; Iowa Catholic Conference; Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa

In plain words

1. February 28, 2025Filed in the House and sent to the Labor and Workforce committee