# Top Pregnancy Lawyer Los Angeles For Employment Issues > Frequent employment issues during and immediately after pregnancy include: 1) Work related restrictions due to pregnancy such as lifting Source: https://worklawyerca.com/pregnancy-lawyer-los-angeles/ Firm: Employment Lawyers Group — employee-side employment lawyers since 1993. Serving Los Angeles County, California. Phone: (818) 783-7300 (calling is the fastest way to reach the legal team) Office: 13418 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 Contact form: https://worklawyerca.com/contact/ Consultations are free and confidential; cases are taken on contingency. --- ### In Los Angeles, a variety of work related issues arise when a woman is pregnant. ### These issues may require the assistance of a lawyer versed in California pregnancy laws. Frequent employment issues during and immediately after pregnancy include: ## 1. Work related restrictions due to pregnancy such as lifting restrictions ## 2. Pregnancy Related Accommodations such as the ability to frequently use the bathroom due to pregnancy, modifications of meal breaks and/or allowing pregnant women to eat thorough their work shift, or a few minutes to rest. ## 3. Time off from work due to pregnancy and pregnancy related medical conditions. Time off due to pregnancy related medical appoints such as ultrasounds and routine check-ups are a form of work accommodations due to pregnancy. Maternity Leave is also a form of time off due to pregnancy. For extensive information of what California maternity leave covers click here [MATERNITY LEAVE LAWYER](https://worklawyerca.com/los-angeles-maternity-leave-lawyer/) ## 4. Employers refusing to allow employees to come back to work after a pregnancy leave. ## 5. Employers not accepting nor following doctor’s notes providing time off due to pregnancy, or pregnancy related medical restrictions. ## 6. Harassment due to pregnancy. Pregnancy harassment includes failure to abide bydoctor’s notes, getting angry when a woman must attend a pregnancy related doctor appointment, odd comments like, “Why did you have to get pregnant?” Comments about the pregnant woman not being married, or they should not be having a baby with so-and-so and then the pregnant woman is mistreated during her pregnancy. ## 7. Complex legal questions about baby bonding ## 8. Complex questions about stacking Family Medical Leave (FMLA) called California Family Rights Leave (CFRA) in California in order to get up to seven months off due to pregnancy ## 9. Legal questions about the relationship between disability laws, pregnancy laws, and Family Medial Leave. For example, what laws is aggravated diabetes caused by pregnancy covered under? ## 10. Baby bonding. When is baby bonding allowed? What laws cover baby bonding? Is there a particular employer a pregnant woman must work for in order to get baby bonding? ## 11. Pregnancy Disability Pay ## 12. Job terminations due to pregnancy including a failure to reinstate after maternity leave.The inability to interview for available positions because the pregnant woman is on leave during a workplace restructuring and ultimately a layoff due to pregnancy. ### The Best Los Angeles Pregnancy Lawyers The Employment Lawyers Group has handled hundreds of work related pregnancy cases. Pregnancy lawyer, Karl Gerber has won multiple pregnancy discrimination cases in court and binding arbitration. He has also represented the same women in appeals, after winning their pregnancy cases in trial. We have also succeeded in resolving many pregnancy discrimination cases through mediation and settlement. Please allow us to be your pregnancy lawyer. 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