Sunday, November 30, 2014

Women who work

In this New York Times I found this article shooting for equal fairness for pregnant women as disabled women. If your a women and you work for U.P.S and you are disabled you are able to work under what's called a "light duty" job or be moved to a different area. This includes losing your license because you were driving while intoxicated. If you become pregnant you will obviously be limited to how much weight you have to carry. Not being able to carry anything over 20 pounds was not okay. U.P.S refuses to accommodate anyone who is pregnant and will immediately compel you to go on unpaid medical leave. U.P.S says that they have a legal right to deny pregnant workers who are not able to perform the same actions as everyone else. In the article the women has sewed and took it all the way to the supreme court so they have a chance to strike a blow against discriminatory treatment. I don't think U.P.S should be able to accommodate the disabled and not women who are pregnant. They are both in the same boat. If someone gets in a car accident or something and is not able to lift heavy things what's really the difference? They should treat pregnant women the same way they do disabled and easily move them to another area and make note that they are under "light duty'.