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More than a dozen Democratic senators are demanding that the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission abandon plans to roll back protections for workers seeking fertility treatments, according to a letter shared first with MS NOW.
In the letter sent to EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas on Monday night, the senators — including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois — say Lucas’ plan could undermine “critical protections for workers undergoing fertility treatments,” in violation of President Donald Trump’s campaign-trail promise to expand access to in vitro fertilization, also known as IVF.
“Your plan to remove workers undergoing fertility treatments from the rule reveals that President Trump’s promise to ‘expand[] access’ to IVF was entirely hollow,” the letter states.
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act requires employers to provide “reasonable accommodations” for limitations arising from pregnancy, childbirth or “related medical conditions.” That law took effect in June 2023, after President Joe Biden signed it into law in December 2022, as part of a larger spending bill.
In a final rule interpreting how the law should...