A Federal Court can decide a lawsuit submitted by Georgia and 16 other states that the federal provisions, which entitles the employees to leisure and other abortions, can be decided.
The decision of the eighth court court on Thursday will return to the eastern district of Arkansa's US district judge DP Marshall, Jr., who had rejected the case in June after determining that the states could not be sued. The chief judge of the eighth judge, Steven M. Colloton, who was appointed in 2003 by former President George W. Bush, wrote on Thursday that the states have been withstanding since they were subject to federal rules.
Under the leadership of Republican prosecutors in Tennessee and Arkansas, the 17 countries sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April, in order to question their rules for the implementation of the pregnant employee -Fairness Act, a non -partisan law of 2022, according to the employer “adequate accommodations” for pregnant or postparters.
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