Law360, New York ( March 27, 2015, 5:56 PM EDT) -- Employers may be required by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to give pregnant employees light-duty positions if they would do so for other employees with similar limitations on their ability to work, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Young v. United Parcel Service Inc. Although an employer may defend against such a claim by showing it had nondiscriminatory reasons for treating pregnancy-related infirmities and other work-limiting conditions differently, a plaintiff can overcome that showing with evidence that the "employer's policies impose a significant burden on pregnant workers, and that the employer's 'legitimate, nondiscriminatory' reasons are not sufficiently strong to justify the burden."...
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