Section 20-609 - Disabilities due to pregnancy or childbirth. - Maryland Statutes

§ 20-609. Disabilities due to pregnancy or childbirth.
 

(a)  Treatment as temporary disabilities.- Disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy or childbirth: 

(1) are temporary disabilities for all job-related purposes; and 

(2) shall be treated as temporary disabilities under any health or temporary disability insurance or sick leave plan available in connection with employment. 

(b)  Parity with other temporary disabilities.- Written and unwritten employment policies and practices involving matters such as the commencement and duration of leave, the availability of extensions of leave, the accrual of seniority and other benefits and privileges, reinstatement, and payment under any health or temporary disability insurance or sick leave plan, formal or informal, shall be applied to disability due to pregnancy or childbirth on the same terms and conditions as they are applied to other temporary disabilities. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 49B, § 17; 2009, ch. 120, § 2; chs. 56, 57.]