This is a true or false question The Pregnancy Act of 2007 e

This is a true or false question, The Pregnancy Act of 2007 expanded Title VII\'s coverage by adding discrimination on the basis of pregnancy as a type of gender discrimination.

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Title VII, the federal law that prohibits most workplace harassment and discrimination, covers all private employers, state and local governments, and educational institutions with 15 or more employees. In addition to prohibiting discrimination against workers because ofrace, color, national origin, religion, and sex, those protections have been extended to include barring against discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, sex stereotyping, andsexual harassment of employees.

Currently, Title VII doesn’t include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.However federal legislation adding sexual orientation as a protected class against discrimination (theEmployment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)), has been proposed in recent years. Many states have employment discrimination and harassment laws as well and may include even more protected classes – such as marital status and sexual orientation – than Title VII covers.