If I work full time and travel for work 40% of the time but I’m pregnant with my first child, what rights do I have with my company?
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If I work full time and travel for work 40% of the time but I’m pregnant with my first child, what rights do I have with my company?
I want to keep my job after the baby is born, but won’t be able to do all the overnights I am currently doing with an infant. Does the company have to make accommodations for me? If they were to transfer me to a different position, does it have to be the same level or can they offer me a lower position within the company for less money?
Asked on January 25, 2016 under Employment Labor Law, Connecticut
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 8 years ago | Contributor
No, they don't have to accommodate you in this way, if the business travel is, as it seems from what you write, a core or intergral part of your job: reasonable accommodations are changes that let you do the job you currently have/do with some minor changes or assistance, but if the job is to travel 40% of the time, they don't need to let you not travel, or transfer you to a different job, etc.--you still have to be able to do *the same* job you are currently doing. So if travel if a key part of your job, they can require you to keep traveling or else terminate you.
They could also, in the above case, choose to give you a different position, either at the same or a lower level, but that is their choice; you have no write to that.
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