Parental, family, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions – Students
Reasonable Modification
LaGrange College will make reasonable modifications to the College’s policies, practices, or procedures as necessary to prevent sex discrimination and ensure equal access to the College’s education program or activity. Each reasonable modification must be based on the student’s individualized needs. In determining what modifications are required under this paragraph, LaGrange College must consult with the student. A modification that LaGrange College can demonstrate would fundamentally alter the nature of its education program or activity is not a reasonable modification.
The student has discretion to accept or decline each reasonable modification offered by LaGrange College. If a student accepts LaGrange College’s offered reasonable modification, LaGrange College will implement it.
Reasonable modifications may include, but are not limited to, breaks during class to express breast milk, breastfeed, or attend to health needs associated with pregnancy or related conditions, including eating, drinking, or using the restroom; intermittent absences to attend medical appointments; access to online or homebound education; changes in schedule or course sequence; extensions of time for coursework and rescheduling of tests and examinations; allowing a student to sit or stand, or carry or keep water nearby; counseling; changes in physical space or supplies for example, access to a larger desk or a footrest); elevator access; or other changes to policies, practices, or procedures.
Voluntary access to separate and comparable portion of program or activity.
LaGrange College will allow the student to voluntarily access any separate and comparable portion of LaGrange College’s education program or activity.
Voluntary leaves of absence.
LaGrange College must allow the student to voluntarily take a leave of absence from the College’s education program or activity to cover, at minimum, the period of time deemed medically necessary by the student’s licensed healthcare provider. To the extent that a student qualifies for leave under a leave policy maintained by LaGrange College that allows a greater period of time than the medically necessary period, LaGrange College must permit the student to take voluntary leave under that policy instead if the student so chooses. When the student returns to the College’s education program or activity, the student must be reinstated to the academic status and as practicable, to the extracurricular status that the student held when the voluntary leave began.
Lactation space.
LaGrange College will ensure that the student can access a lactation space, which must be a space other than a bathroom, that is clean, shielded from view, free from intrusion from others, and may be used by a student for expressing breast milk or breastfeeding as needed.
Limitation on s documentation.
LaGrange College will not require supporting documentation unless the documentation is necessary and reasonable for the College to determine the reasonable modifications to make or whether to take additional specific actions. Examples of situations when requiring supporting documentation is not necessary and reasonable include, but are not limited to, when the student’s need for a specific action is obvious, such as when a student who is pregnant needs a bigger uniform; when the student has previously provided LaGrange College with sufficient supporting documentation; when the reasonable modification because of pregnancy or related conditions at issue is allowing a student to carry or keep water nearby and drink, use a bigger desk, sit or stand, or take breaks to eat, drink, or use the restroom; when the student has lactation needs; or when the specific action is available to students for reasons other than pregnancy or related conditions without submitting supporting documentation.
Comparable treatment to other temporary medical conditions.
LaGrange College will treat pregnancy or related conditions in the same manner and under the same policies as any other temporary medical conditions with respect to any medical or hospital benefit, service, plan, or policy LaGrange College administers, operates, offers, or participates in with respect to students admitted to the College’s education program or activity.
Certification to participate.
LaGrange College will not require a student who is pregnant or has related conditions to provide certification from a healthcare provider or any other person that
the student is physically able to participate in the College’s class, program, or extracurricular activity unless:
- The certified level of physical ability or health is necessary for participation in the class, program, or extracurricular activity;
- LaGrange College requires such certification of all students participating in the class, program, or extracurricular activity; and
- The information obtained is not used as a basis for discrimination prohibited by this Policy.
Parental, family, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions – Employees
Scope
LaGrange College has not adopted or implemented any policy, practice, or procedure, or take any employment action, on the basis of sex:
- Concerning the current, potential, or past parental, family, or marital status of an employee or applicant for employment, which treats persons differently; or
- That is based on whether an employee or applicant for employment is the head of household or principal wage earner in such employee’s or applicant’s family unit is.
Pregnancy or related conditions.
LaGrange College does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of current, potential, or past pregnancy or related conditions.
Comparable treatment to other temporary medical conditions.
LaGrange College treats pregnancy or related conditions as any other temporary medical conditions for all job-related purposes, including commencement, duration and extensions of leave; payment of disability income; accrual of seniority and any other benefit or service; and reinstatement; and under any fringe benefit offered to employees by virtue of employment.
Voluntary leaves of absence.
In the case of an employee with insufficient leave or accrued employment time to qualify for leave under such a policy, LaGrange College will treat pregnancy or related conditions as a justification for a voluntary leave of absence without pay for a reasonable period of time, at the conclusion of which the employee shall be reinstated to the status held when the leave began or to a comparable position, without decrease in rate of compensation or loss of promotional opportunities, or any other right or privilege of employment.
Lactation time and space.
- LaGrange College will provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk or breastfeed as
- LaGrange College will ensure that an employee can access a lactation space, which must be a space other than a bathroom that is clean, shielded from view, free from intrusion from others, and may be used by an employee for expressing breast milk or breastfeeding as needed.