Erin Dindinger, Lisa Loring, and Elizabeth Freund v. Allsteel, Inc. and Scott Mills

MANSFIELD, Justice.

We have been asked to answer two certified questions of Iowa law in an employment discrimination case filed in federal district court. They are:

1. Do Iowa Code section 216.6A, Iowa’s equal pay law, and the accompanying remedial language in section 216.15(9)(a)(9), apply to permit a plaintiff to pursue wage discrimination claims under section 216.6A that accrued before April 28, 2009, the date Iowa’s General Assembly made these statutes effective, in the absence of express legislative language making these laws retroactive?

2. If a prevailing plaintiff may only recover…