# Implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
> **US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission** · Final rule and interpretive guidance. · Published 2024-04-19 · Effective 2024-06-18 · 89 FR 29096
## Document
- **Document number:** 2024-07527
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 89 FR 29096
- **CFR reference:** 29 CFR 1636
- **Publication date:** 2024-04-19
- **Effective date:** 2024-06-18
## Abstract

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is issuing this final rule and interpretive guidance to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which requires a covered entity to provide reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee's or applicant's known limitations related to, affected by, or arising out of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless the accommodation will cause an undue hardship on the operation of the business of the covered entity.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/19/2024-07527/implementation-of-the-pregnant-workers-fairness-act)
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