SCOTUS to decide if pregnant workers can be forced off the job.

[Jim Lane]

8. That 1908 decision does not reflect the current state of the law.

See, for example, Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190 (1976), in which the Court invalidated an Oklahoma statute that set different minimum ages for purchasing 3.2% beer (females 18 years old, males 21 years old). I'm sure that, if Muller arose today, the sex discrimination in minimum wages and maximum hours would be overturned.

Neither of these cases is directly applicable to the UPS appeal, however. The obvious problem here is that, while a state can have gender-neutral .wage-and-hour laws and gender-neutral alcohol laws, it cannot, in any meaningful sense, have gender-neutral laws about pregnancy.

I think the issue of accommodating pregnant workers has come up before, but I haven't researched it.