Show Notes:
Episode 26: Workplace Accommodation with guest Juliana Franco – Know your rights!
Table of Contents0:42 Welcome. Guest introduction: Juliana Franco1:45 Juliana describes work at Center for Worklife Law3:07 Thank you to our sponsor Happi Tummi4:40 Juliana’s workplace and accommodations5:20 Discuss Juliana’s magazine article5:50 Wage earning moms and workplace accommodation denial7:35 Workplace accommodation denial stats8:24 Asking for accommodations9:15 Accommodations as flashpoint for discrimination10:00 Cases of workplace lactation descrimination12:15 Workplace as hurdle for lactating moms13:40 Cold mop closet as “pumping room”14:50 Thank you to our sponsor Aeroflow17:00 Advocating for workplace accommodations17:42 Play to request accommodations19:15 For healthcare providers: effective accommodation letters19:42 Effective healthcare provider letters22:02 Requesting accommodations, fearing retaliation25:00 Litigation and workplace accommodation27:08 Free information and support resources are available27:57 How do we make a better future?29:50 Juliana’s takeaway thoughts, resources31:19 Thank yous to new Patreon patrons! Happy birthday Molly!
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Thanks to Cherie Louise Turner for editing and production, and to Lindsay Brett Carothers for her musical stylings of our intro and outro.For all other music credits, thank you Walter Mazzaccaro from Pixabay (https://bit.ly/3klPCjX). Tracks include: “Solo un fiore,” “Semplici illusioni,” “Balliamo ancora.”
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Resources:
PregnantAtWork.org: https://www.pregnantatwork.org/
“The Health Care Provider’s Role in Securing Work Accommodations for Pregnant and Postpartum Patients,” in Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, by Juliana Franco, Liz Morris, Jessica Lee, and Joan C. Williams: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jmwh.13131?af=RFree legal helpline,
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