The Center for WorkLife Law is a research and advocacy organization at UC Hastings College of the Law that seeks to advance gender and racial equity in the workplace and in higher education. WorkLife Law focuses on initiatives with the potential to produce concrete social, legal, and institutional change within a three to five year timeframe. Our current major initiatives include programs for advancing women leaders, eliminating barriers for pregnant and breastfeeding workers and students, preventing Family Responsibilities Discrimination, and helping companies to interrupt and correct bias in the workplace and create more stable schedules for their hourly workers.
Our latest report, Exposed: Discrimination Against Breastfeeding Workers, analyzes breastfeeding legal cases from the last decade to document patterns of discrimination, and analyzes new data on the scope of existing state and federal laws to protect against discrimination. We found that 27.6 million women of childbearing age don’t have the basic protections needed by all breastfeeding workers.
With the help of the Society of Women Engineers, the Center for WorkLife Law produced a comprehensive survey documenting in the real world what social psychologists have long observed in labs: that women and people of color experience workplace hurdles that do not exist for white men.
Employers have failed to put in place policies that protect and support caregivers. Based on our review of 4,000 cases, we review efforts to reduce bias against caregivers in the workplace.
With our economy increasingly shifting towards freelancers, it's important to understand the rights that freelancing parents have. @nytimes worked with @WorkLifeLawCtr deputy director Liz Morris to create this incredible parental leave guide:
How Freelancing Parents Can Create Maternity or Paternity Leave
Parents who freelance should explore state-sponsored paid leave programs early, and save as much as they can.
parenting.nytimes.com
Offering employees stable schedules can have a big impact on sales, productivity, and worker health.
@rkorn88 @WorkLifeLawCtr
Schedule Stability: A Win for Retail Businesses and Their Workers
Stable scheduling can have a big impact on sales, productivity, and health.
www.aspeninstitute.org
Would we be more respectful of pregnant women's rights as workers if we better normalized the idea of working while pregnant? A look back at an awesome photo essay documenting #pregnantwomenatwork
Where Are All the Images of Working Pregnant Women?
Nearly 70 percent of women work while pregnant, but they’re almost entirely absent from our media.
slate.com
We @WorkLifeLawCtr fight for #mothers so they are free to earn an income and support their families. This #MothersDay, support mothers by implementing family-friendly workplace policies and helping mothers advance in the workplace
Breadwinning Mothers Continue To Be the U.S. Norm - Center for American Progress
The share of U.S. breadwinning mothers remains high, and the United States needs work-family policies that catch up to modern families’ needs.
www.americanprogress.org
¡Feliz día de la madre! Si eres una nueva mamá y necesitas recursos sobre cómo hablar con tu jefe acerca tu extractor de leche materna, haz clic aquí: https://t.co/eAHrcYSLWH #DiaDeLaMadre #MothersDay2019 #RecursosParaMamas
The #FAMILYAct would provide workers up to 12 weeks of paid leave for personal serious illness, an ill child, parent or spouse and the birth or adoption of a child.
