Overview

• MDHR says Lakes Concrete Plus will pay $45,000 after firing a female concrete truck driver following a manager’s remark that the job was not “women’s work.”
• According to MDHR, Key Lime Air will pay $45,000 after refusing to hire a qualified male flight attendant and acknowledging a belief that women are “better” for the role.
• Both settlements require the companies to implement measures to ensure workplaces free from sex-based discrimination.
• The settlement payments will go to the impacted former employee and the job applicant, MDHR says.
• MDHR reports that 22% of charges it receives allege sex discrimination, and KSTP says it has requested comment from both companies.