• Absence Specification

Not an affirmative right to leave but a basis for anti-discrimination

Covered Employers: For the purpose of determining discrimination based on disability, employer means a person who has fifteen (15) or more employees for each working day in each of twenty (20) or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year.

Employee Eligibility: Female employees

Entitlement: Female employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions must be treated the same as others with a similar ability or inability to work. "Related medical condition" includes but is not limited to lactation or the need to express breast milk for a nursing child.

Employer Notice: Not specified

Employee Notice: Not specified

Obligation to Provide Certifications or Documents Supporting Need for Leave: Not specified

Paid?: Yes, to the extent that female employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions must be treated the same as others with a similar ability or inability to work.

Benefits: Yes, to the extent that female employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions must be treated the same as others with a similar ability or inability to work.

Reinstatement: Yes, to the extent that female employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions must be treated the same as others with a similar ability or inability to work.

Other Important Definitions/Requirements: The terms "because of sex" or "on the basis of sex" include, but are not limited to, because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; and women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work, and nothing in this section shall be interpreted to permit otherwise.