By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
Finally!
For two years I’ve been telling you, in my newsletter and from every social media platform, podcast and stage that would have me, that federal menopause protection at work was coming.
Today it’s here, and
On July 14, 2026, U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Yvette Clarke (D-NY) introduced the Menopausal Workers’ Fairness Act, a bill aimed at closing a
Even as some global employers have embraced menopause equity movement, many are still resisting changes to their culture and policies. In an interview with ABA Journal, Jack Tuckner, of Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser in New York, added that these
Last week I told you about the phone call I’ve had hundreds of times. Pregnant woman. Employer who thought the FMLA was their only obligation. An argument that took twenty years to become federal law.
What I didn’t tell you
Nearly half of all working women in America have no FMLA protection. For most of the last thirty years that meant one thing: no guaranteed right to take maternity leave when their baby was born. Until June 2023, when that
You’ve suspected it for a while. Maybe you found out a coworker makes more than you for the same job. Maybe you saw a job posting for your role – or one just like it – at a higher salary
You’re not crazy. You’re not “too sensitive.” And you’re not imagining it.
When you’re consistently talked over in meetings, when your ideas get ignored until someone else repeats them, when you’re asked, “where are you really from,” when you’re the
You applied for a job. You never got an interview. You never talked to a human. You were just…rejected.
Welcome to hiring in 2026. By some estimates, over 80% of employers now use automated systems to screen applicants before a
For decades, employers have gotten away with discrimination by hiding behind a simple defense: “We didn’t mean to.”
In New York, that defense just died.
On December 19, 2025, Governor Hochul signed a law that formally codified “disparate impact” protections
