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Congress Adds Federal Protections for Pregnant Workers and Nursing Mothers

Grant T. Collins

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…

Citing 2021 Amendments, Supreme Court Will Not Review WESA Pregnancy Accommodation Decision

Grant T. Collins

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…

Appeals Court Says One Year of Employment Rule Does Not Apply to Pregnancy Accommodations

Laura I. Bernstein

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…

Employer Pays $5 Million For Not Knowing That Men Can Be Caregivers Too

Dennis J. Merley

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…

Employer Needn’t Be Angry About Pregnancy To Discriminate Against It

Lauren M. Weber

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…

Court Delivers Rebuke For Rejecting Pregnant Job Applicant

Dennis J. Merley

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that an employer engaged in pregnancy-related sex discrimination when they rescinded a prospective employee’s job offer after learning that she had failed to…