What are the rights for pregnant women in the work place?

Answer 1

Meaning what? Maternity Leave? Time Off for doctors visits? You should be more specific.

Maternity Leave: Ask your Human Resources, or check the employee handbook, about Maternity leave and if you are entitled. Your company should have the FMLA law. The only way to get paid being out on maternity leave would be to work for a great company that pays you or YOU pay for disability insurance through your company and/or health insurance company. The pay for disability is 'about' 65% of your regular check and you get 6-8 weeks, depending on type of delivery (6 weeks vaginally, 8 weeks c-section).
With the FMLA law, you are entitled to 12 weeks of UNPAID time off to care for a birth of a child. You can also ask about Part Time FMLA - which they will give you the hours in equivelant to 12 weeks, which would be 480 hours. You can stretch out 480 hours over a year, but not past the baby's first birthday. You can work 32 hours 1 week, 20 the next, 40 the next if you want..etc.
As for doctors visits, that is taken out of YOUR time - overtime work is needed or you use up vacation sick time.

If you don't have disability, you can save up your vacation time for when you have the baby.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Pregnant women have all the same rights that non-pregnant women do. Just because you are pregnant does not mean that you lose your rights

Answer 3

You have the right to have 6 weeks leave and still have a job when you return. Whether they pay you or not is up to the particular company. (at least in the US)

Answer 4

They get the same rights everyone else gets. They do get 6 weeks of at the time they have the baby, this is unpaid, but their job is secure while they are gone.

Answer 5

There are no gained rights. There are no lost rights. You have the same rights as everyone else.

Answer 6

Not sure, but the US Department of Labor website might but helpful.