Providence Health & Services has allegedly failed for years to provide workplace accommodations to pregnant and nursing employees, and retaliated against some who sought them, according to a new lawsuit from the state attorney general’s office. The complaint , filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court, references incidents dating back to 2021 in which the hospital system allegedly rejected requests for pregnancy accommodation s , or refused to implement changes that had been “granted” on paper. Those accommodations included allowing employees to sit more frequently, schedule flexibility for prenatal visits and ensuring a private space to pump breast milk, the suit says. Providence instead regularly required employees to continue working without accommodations or forced them to take leave early, putting their health and the health of their pregnancies at risk, the complaint alleges.…