Walmart, EEOC Take Pregnant Workers’ Battle to Seventh Circuit

Walmart and the EEOC will battle it out Thursday over the company’s exclusion of pregnant workers from light duty. But it’s not just the policy that is at issue, rather how Walmart justified it.

The retailer limited its alternate duty policy to workers temporarily unable to perform their usual work because of an on-the-job injury. But it didn’t address specifically why pregnant workers were excluded, the agency will tell the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

But Walmart says the law doesn’t require it to do that. It offered plenty of reasons justifying the policy the EEOC alleges ...