Trump plans rollback of pregnancy job protections
The gist
The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to scale back workplace accommodations tied to pregnancy and reproductive health.
The PWFA covers millions of pregnant workers, and the EEOC enforces it.
How it unfolded
- Jan 20, 2025President Trump issued an executive order seeking to revise his plan to strip employment protections for federal workers, including by reinstating Schedule F, potentially affecting tens of thousands of federal civilian workers.
- May 4, 2025According to reports, more than a dozen data-gathering programs tracking deaths and disease were apparently eliminated via layoffs and proposed budget cuts in the administration's first 100 days, including CDC experts tracking abortions, pregnancies and job-related injuries, and the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System.
- Aug 6, 2025The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it would terminate labor protections for more than 400,000 of its workers in response to a March 27 executive order.