Live Webinar

Avoiding Pregnancy Discrimination in Discipline and Termination

  • Wednesday, February 17, 2027
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
  • 60 Minutes
4.5 / 5 994 ratings of this speaker
CE credits
  • 1.00 ATAHR (Aurora HR)
  • 1.00 HRCI (Human Resource Certification Institute)
  • 1.00 SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management)

What You'll Learn

Pregnancy-related employment decisions can create significant compliance and employee-relations risks. Discipline or termination may be lawful when supported by consistent, well-documented, nondiscriminatory reasons. Risk increases when pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, related medical conditions, leave, or accommodation requests affect the decision.
  1. EEOC enforcement priorities, charge risks, investigations, and recent lawsuit and settlement lessons.
  2. Title VII and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act: avoiding bias, stereotypes, disparate treatment, and inconsistent discipline.
  3. PWFA requirements: recognizing requests, conducting the interactive process, considering temporary limitations, and avoiding improper documentation demands.
  4. ADA protections for pregnancy-related impairments that may qualify as disabilities.
  5. FMLA leave, the PUMP Act, lactation breaks, and wage-and-hour considerations.
  6. More protective state and local accommodation, paid-leave, and anti-discrimination laws.
  7. Documenting legitimate business reasons without assumptions about attendance, commitment, safety, or future availability.
  8. Retaliation prevention, confidentiality, respectful communication, and supervisor and HR escalation responsibilities.
  9. Engagement and retention strategies that support fairness, psychological safety, manager credibility, and consistent accountability.
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This practical webinar helps HR professionals and managers address attendance, performance, conduct, discipline, and termination involving pregnant or recently pregnant employees. Explore how Title VII, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the PWFA, the ADA, Department of Labor requirements, and state or local protections overlap.

Through practical scenarios and lawsuit lessons, learn to recognize accommodation triggers, consider temporary work changes, coordinate leave and lactation rights, and prevent retaliation. Gain strategies for defensible decisions, clear documentation, and respectful communication that support accountability, employee trust, and retention.

Your Benefits For Attending
  • Understand how overlapping protections affect pregnancy-related employment decisions.
  • Recognize accommodation triggers and coordinate temporary work changes, leave, and lactation rights.
  • Document and address legitimate performance or conduct concerns consistently.
  • Strengthen accommodation discussions and communication while preventing retaliation.
  • Support employee engagement and retention without overlooking accountability.

Build confidence in handling sensitive employment decisions with practical strategies for clearer documentation, respectful communication, and reduced legal exposure.

Who Will Benefit:

HR professionals, supervisors, managers, team leaders, recruiters, operations professionals, legal, compliance, and risk management staff; CEOs, COOs, CFOs; and associations serving supervisors, managers, and HR professionals.

Meet Your Speaker

Wendy Sellers

Wendy Sellers, MHR, MHA, SHRM-SCP, SPHR has 25 years of experience in HR, change management, operations, strategy, corporate culture, and leadership development in all size businesses (local startup to global enterprise) in a wide variety of industries including healthcare, professional services,...

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  • “I have been a single or two person HR department for my entire career so this was more of a refresher.”

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  • “This was one of the better speakers I have heard through many courses with Aurora. Excellent speaker.”

    Dawn L. , Human Resources Officer

CE Credits

These are the continuing education credits available to you for this webinar.

  • 1.00 ATAHR Aurora HR Aurora Training Advantage is offering continuing education points designed to recognize dedication to training and excellence in human resources.
  • 1.00 HRCI Human Resource Certification Institute Browse HRCI-approved webinars and earn recertification credits online. Live and on-demand HR training for PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification. Expert-led sessions from Aurora Training Advantage.
  • 1.00 SHRM Society for Human Resource Management Aurora Training Advantage is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.