· 3/6/2015
Erin Dindinger, Lisa Loring, and Elizabeth Freund v. Allsteel, Inc. and Scott Mills
Citations
- 860 N.W.2d 557
- 2015 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 23
- 126 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1012
How courts have described this case
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- holding Iowa Code section 216.6A “applies on a prospective basis only to conduct occurring after its effective date of July 1, 2009”
- explaining that the wording of Iowa Code § 216.6A is similar to the Equal Pay Act, and drawing on federal courts’ interpretations of the Equal Pay Act to interpret § 216.6A
- looking to the federal Equal Pay Act to interpret wage discrimination claims under Iowa Code § 216.6A
- stating “we aligned ourselves with the unanimous view of the Supreme Court in [Nat’l Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morgan, 536 U.S. 101, 114–18 (2002
- declining to retrospectively apply amendments to the Iowa Civil Rights Act that imposed liability for wage discrimination and enhanced existing remedies
- “Discrete discriminatory acts are ‘separately actionable,’ not a basis for invoking the continuing violation theory.”
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Judges: Mansfield
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