MINNEAPOLIS – A former employee is suing Sun Country Airlines, alleging she was forced out of work eleven months after giving birth to her second child.
Hani Ali alleges the airline violated her rights under the Minnesota Human Rights Act and the Minnesota Women’s Economic Security Act by making her pump breast milk in a high-traffic area inside the terminal that was not a designated nursing room, giving her nowhere to store her milk, allowing a coworker to watch her pump, allowing others to harass her over the time she needed to take pumping breaks, and purposefully not scheduling her inside the terminal, the only place she was allowed to pump, due to her pumping.
Ali resigned in March 2022 and is currently seeking damages for lost wages, emotional distress, and mental anguish, as well as an injunction to ensure that Sun Country and other airlines won’t subject other new parents to similar treatment.
