Texas Company Targets EEOC Pregnant Worker Rules in Quorum Suit

The EEOC is facing a new lawsuit from a company arguing that enforcement of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act is unconstitutional because quorum requirements weren’t met when Congress voted on the law.

The Covid-19-era decision to allow proxy voting in the US House of Representatives resulted in a failure to meet quorum during the passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, the funding package that included the PWFA, electrical equipment company Brandon & Clark argued in a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

The argument has been successful before. A judge ...