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.
#Employers may not be aware of the ways unstable schedules produce significant financial and health hardships --- @WorkLifeLawCtr partnered with @UChicago @kenanflagler & @Gap to see what stable schedules can do for retail #workers. Read our findings here:
Stable Scheduling Study: Health Outcomes Report
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A recent report from @WorkLifeLawCtr exposes the #Breastfeeding discrimination in workplaces where it continues to be a challenge for mothers to breastfeed and pump. Learn more at https://t.co/ypnnZUQrFm.
Here's our recent webinar w/@USbreastfeeding & @CDCgov on #discrimination against #breastfeeding workers:
Join in @ 2 EST as we discuss our latest report on #breastfeeding discrimination: https://t.co/O3pKQERlVm - We'll be talking about the last decade of #discrimination cases, policy solutions, & #resources you can use today. Thanks @USbreastfeeding & @CDCgov for partnering with us!
It's not too late to register for tomorrow's webinar & check-out our report: https://t.co/XFqL3DQtSW
Join us Tuesday from 2-3 p.m. ET for the "Exposed: Discrimination Against Breastfeeding Workers" webinar! This webinar will explore the challenges breastfeeding workers face, including lack of accommodations, sexual harassment, job loss, and early weaning. https://t.co/f4C6nsZ0xh
