When new provisions are added to existing statutes, it is often difficult to determine how the new language interacts with the preexisting statutory scheme. This was highlighted in a recent case where the Minnesota Court ...
Financial services leader JPMorgan Chase just settled a sex discrimination claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) for $5 Million. A year before, cosmetics giant Estee Lauder offered up $1.1 Million to settle a ...
The Minnesota Supreme Court recently rebuked a trial court for laboring under the false impression that an employer must be angry about an applicant’s pregnancy in order to unlawfully discriminate against it. Instead, pregnancy-based discrimination ...
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that an employer engaged in pregnancy-related sex discrimination when they rescinded a prospective employee’s job offer after learning that she had failed to disclose her pregnancy during a ...
