Virginia Updates

Sep 21, 2020 3:22:00 PM

Virginia Human Rights Act (VHRA)

The VHRA requires a covered employer to provide reasonable accommodations to employees for their limitations based on pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation) unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the employer. An employer is defined as any person or their agent employing five or more employees for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year.

By October 29, 2020 the VHRA requires covered employers to provide written notice to existing employees regarding the prohibition on discrimination and the right to reasonable accommodations.

Notice requirements of the VHRA include:

Posting a notice in the workplace
Including the notice in the employee handbook policy
Providing a notice to new employees at the commencement of employment
Providing the notice to an employee who discloses their pregnancy to the employer within 10 days after the disclosure

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