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What is the CROWN Act, what do I need to know about it, and how should employers prepare for it?

What is the CROWN Act, what do I need to know about it, and how should employers prepare for it?

July 6, 2022 

by Dorsey & Whitney

On March 18, 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act by way of a party line vote of 235-189. In general, the federal CROWN Act and similar state...

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Refusal to Transfer an Employee as an Adverse Employment Action; or, How Life Imitates 1950s Movies

Refusal to Transfer an Employee as an Adverse Employment Action; or, How Life Imitates 1950s Movies

September 28, 2017 

by Dorsey & Whitney

In the classic 1955 movie, Mister Roberts, Henry Fonda plays Doug Roberts, a frustrated Naval officer aboard a supply ship in a backwater area of the Pacific during World War II. Roberts desperately seeks a transfer to a combat ship...

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