{"id":44431,"date":"2020-02-14T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-senate-bill-would-extend-window-for-pregnancy-discrimination-complaints\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T19:09:00","slug":"state-senate-bill-would-extend-window-for-pregnancy-discrimination-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-senate-bill-would-extend-window-for-pregnancy-discrimination-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"State Senate bill would extend window for pregnancy discrimination complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill passed Thursday by the state Senate in Olympia with a broad bipartisan majority would extend the statute of limitations for filing a pregnancy discrimination complaint from six months to one year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=6034&#038;Year=2019&#038;Initiative=false\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"bill\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 6034<\/a> would update the Washington Law Against Discrimination to give a pregnant woman or new mother more time to file a complaint with the Washington Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It takes nine months or more to have a baby, but right now, expectant mothers only have six months to file a discrimination complaint,&rdquo; said Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines, the sponsor of the bill, in a State Senate Democrats news release. &ldquo;That doesn&rsquo;t make sense.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The issue received national attention in October with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90414895\/exclusive-i-left-google-because-of-pregnancy-discrimination\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the publication of a Fast Company article <\/a>about the discrimination faced by Chelsey Glasson, a Washingtonian who worked at a major technology company in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Studies show that mothers are half as likely to be called back for interviews as non-mothers, and mothers who are hired are likely to be offered an average of $11,000 less per year in salary.<\/p>\n<p>Having passed the Senate by a vote of 38-9, SB 6034 now moves to the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keiser sponsor of bill <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":44432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44431"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}