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This law is a lifeline for pregnant workers even as an abortion dispute complicates its enforcement
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Raquel Robinson poses with her one-year-old daughter Londyn Crenshaw at their home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. After her daughter was born in October 2022, Robinson was diagnosed with postpartum depression. - photo by AP Photo/Phil Long
NEW YORK (AP) — Victoria Cornejo Barrera thought the legal helpline for workers sounded too good to be true. A month earlier, Cornejo Barrera had been forced to take leave from her job as head custodian at a South Carolina high school after she turned in a doctor's note asking to be exempt from tasks like climbing ladders and lifting more than 20 pounds because she was pregnant. She spent a month crying and blaming herself for thinking she could keep her job while pregnant.