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Minnesota passed a right to sit law for women workers in 1887. The law stated that it "shall be the duty of all employers of females in any mercantile or manufacturing business or occupation to provide and maintain suitable seats for the use of such female employes, and to permit the use of such seats by such employes to such an extent as may ...
The right to sit refers to laws or policies granting workers the right to be granted suitable seating at the workplace. Jurisdictions that have enshrined "right to sit" laws or policies include Austria, Japan, Germany, Mexico, France, Spain, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Jamaica, South Africa, Eswatini, Cameroon, Tanzania, Uganda, Lesotho ...
A referendum upholding a law which modified vehicle permitting requirements Failed 640,051 (40.76%) 930,227 (59.24%) Proposal 4 A referendum upholding a law further regulating the practice of dentistry and dental surgery Passed 735,053 (58.73%) 516,597 (41.27%)
On a party-line vote, Democrats repealed Michigan's "right-to-work" law that had allowed workers in unionized workplaces to opt out of paying union dues. About half of U.S. states have right-to ...
The Michigan Supreme Court could soon decide whether the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act of 1976 protects gay and transgender residents from discrimination because it prohibits sex-based bias.
Expansion of Michigan's public records law. In a nearly unanimous vote last Wednesday, the state Senate passed legislation to expand Michigan's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to require public ...
The law was later ruled unconstitutional by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, but the state legislature passed a new version of the law in 1980. [163] Shyamala Rajender v. University of Minnesota is a landmark class action lawsuit dealing with sexual discrimination at an American university. [227]
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed two bills banning so-called conversion therapy, a scientifically discredited practice intended to change a person’s sexual orientation, for minors in ...