The Chicago District Office of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit, charging an employer with violations of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The EEOC alleged that Prairie Green at Fay’s Point, an assisted living facility in Blue Island, Illinois, terminated a pregnant employee after she disclosed her pregnancy and related lifting restriction. In the lawsuit, the EEOC charged that the employee informed her employer of the pregnancy and requested an accommodation for a 20-pound lifting restriction. Accommodating the restriction would have allowed the employee to continue to work, the EEOC said, but the employer refused. Such alleged conduct violates the PWFA, which requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnancy related restrictions, unless it would cause an undue hardship for the business.