PDA
What is the full name for PDA?
For PDA, full name is Pregnancy Discrimination Act; employee threshold is 15; requirement is women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work; counting note is any worker who qualifies as an employee is counted, including part-time employees, seasonal employees, and temporary employees, verified against its source on 2026-11-01.
If a complaint against a business (or some other private employer) involves race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability or genetic information, the business is covered by the laws we enforce if it has 15 or more employees who worked for the employer for at least twenty calendar weeks (in this year or last).
— eeoc.gov, retrieved 2026-09-29
- Law
- PDA our reading
- Full name
- Pregnancy Discrimination Act verified
- Employee threshold
- 15 verified
- Requirement
- women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work verified
- Counting note
- any worker who qualifies as an employee is counted, including part-time employees, seasonal employees, and temporary employees verified
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
Where each value comes from
This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.
Law and Full name
which enacted subsec. (k) of this section and notes set out below, is popularly known as the "Pregnancy Discrimination Act".
Requirement
The terms "because of sex" or "on the basis of sex" include, but are not limited to, because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; and women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work
Counting note
In determining whether an employer is covered, any worker who qualifies as an employee is counted, including part-time employees, seasonal employees, and temporary employees. Independent contractors and other non-employees, such as owners, are not counted.
— all from eeoc.gov, retrieved 2026-09-29
Sources
- eeoc.govhttps://www.eeoc.gov/employers/coverage-businessprivate-employers
- uscode.house.govhttps://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2000e&num=0&edition=prelim
- eeoc.govhttps://www.eeoc.gov/employers/how-do-you-count-number-employees-employer-has