Number
13423
Version
Original
Reference
Sponsor
The Chair
Title
Resolution authorizing the adoption of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act; and Pump Act as additional workplace laws by the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM)
Analysis
Body
WHEREAS, Effective, June 17, 2023, there were two additional protections added for Pregnant Workers. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the PUMP Act; and
WHEREAS, The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act requires a covered employer to provide a reasonable accommodation to a worker’s known limitation related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions unless the accommodation will cause the employer an undue hardship; and
WHEREAS, The PUMP Act (Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act), which broadens workplace protections for employees to express breast milk at work; and;
WHEREAS, HACM is mandated to be in compliance with laws set forth by the United States Department of Labor, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, by the Commissioners of the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM) that The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the PUMP Act be adopted; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Secretary-Executive Director authorize the appropriate staff to update the Employee Handbook and to take all action necessary to implement this for all current and future staff.
Requestor
Drafter
Housing Management, Crystal Reed Hardy, HR Director, 105, 2023
Technical correction made on 10/10/23: word: from - adaption to adoption in the title of the resolution. mp