WOMEN PURSUE SEX DISCRIMINATION CLAIM AGAINST SAUDI PRINCE

Three women working as limousine drivers in Rochester, Minnesota, are pursuing a sex discrimination claim against their former employer and against Price Abdul-Rahman bin Adbul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia. The women say that they were hired as drivers for the Prince and his entourage when they were in Minnesota for medical treatment at the Mayo Clinic …

MINNESOTA JURY AFFIRMS OFFICER’S FREE SPEECH RIGHTS

An Oakdale police officer’s first amendment rights were affirmed by a local jury earlier this week, after a long dispute over disciplinary action and wrongful termination as a result of comments he made about a police chief. The comments were made in the context of a union meeting, when members took a vote of “no …

LUND BOAT COMPANY SETTLES MINNESOTA SEX-DISCRIMINATION CLAIM

Lund Boat Company (and its parent company, Brunswick Corporation) have agreed to pay nearly $300,000 to the federal government following a years-long investigation of hiring practices at a New York Mills, Minnesota, manufacturing facility. The U.S. Department of Labor began investigating Lund’s manufacturing plant in rural Otter Tail County, Minnesota, back in 2007 following a series …

TRUCK DRIVER DENIED ACCOMMODATION, WRONGFULLY TERMINATED

A truck driver is suing his former employer, saying that DMS Express refused to allow him a reasonable accommodation so that he could treat his diabetes and anxiety properly, and that he was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for voicing his concerns. The dispute arose when the driver asked his employer if he could take a …

FEMALE POLICE OFFICER ACCUSES BOSS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT

A female police officer recently filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after enduring about four years of sexual harassment from her boss in the internal affairs bureau. The woman says that she was the victim of unwanted sexual advances, coercion, sexual harassment, and a range of other reprehensible conduct that would be …

SOMALI WOMEN ALLEGE DISCRIMINATION BY MINNESOTA DESSERT COMPANY

About 40 former employees of a local dessert company began a discrimination case this week, alleging that the new dress code violated their religious rights. The employees are all Somali women who dress in accordance with their Muslim beliefs. There is a dispute over whether the women were fired or whether they quit, since the …

MCDONALD’S FRANCHISE OWNER FINED $1 MILLION IN HARASSMENT CASE

A franchise owning company of 25 McDonald’s restaurants was fined $1 million in a lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission following an investigation of sexual harassment complaints at one of its Midwest locations. The EEOC responded to reports of sexual comments, kissing, and other inappropriate touching forced upon female employees by their male …