Cynthia Thomas Calvert
Cynthia Thomas Calvert

Cynthia Thomas Calvert is the principal of Workforce 21C and a senior advisor for family responsibilities discrimination to the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings. She co-authored, with Joan C. Williams and Gary Phelan, the legal treatise Family Responsibilities Discrimination (Bloomberg BNA 2014 & supp. 2016).

Columns by Cynthia Thomas Calvert
Paid Labor: Eleventh Circuit Protects Rights of Pregnant Worker

Joanna L. Grossman, law professor SMU Dedman School of Law, and Cynthia Thomas Calvert, principal of Workforce 21C and a senior advisor for family responsibilities discrimination to the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings, comment on a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals by the Eleventh Circuit protecting the rights of a pregnant worker. Grossman and Calvert describe the lower court’s ruling and the appellate court’s decision reversing it, calling the decision “a step forward for the rights of pregnant women.”