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Excerpt from www.arkansasonline.com
A federal judge in Arkansas has tossed out a lawsuit filed by 17 states challenging rules on accommodations for workers seeking abortions, saying the states lacked the standing to bring the lawsuit.
In addition to Arkansas, other states that joined the suit were Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia.
Republican attorneys general from each state, led by Arkansas and Tennessee, sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April, following the publication of rules for employers and workers to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The law, passed in 2022, requires many employers to make “reasonable accommodations” for pregnant or postpartum employees, including giving employees who have an abortion time off to have the procedure and recover.
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