On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, Pub. L. 117-328, into law. Included in the massive 1,600-page spending bill are two new federal protections for pregnant workers and nursing ...
As we reported in April 2020, in Hinrichs-Cady v. Hennepin County (Minn. Ct. App. 2020), the Minnesota Court of Appeals held that pregnant employees requesting “non-leave accommodations” mandated by the 2014 Women’s Economic Security Act ...
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that an employer engaged in pregnancy-related sex discrimination when they rescinded a prospective employee’s job offer after learning that she had failed to disclose her pregnancy during a ...
