(FOX 9) - The Minnesota Department of Human Rights has announced two separate settlements with workplaces over findings of "blatant workplace discrimination" that violated the state’s civil rights laws.

Sex discrimination settlements

What we know:

The department has announced Lakes Concrete Plus, located in Bemidji , will pay a former employee $45,000 for lost wages and implement changes to create a workplace free from discrimination after it found that it had told them that driving a concrete truck was not "women’s work."

After a comprehensive investigation by the department, the company was found to have violated the Minnesota Human Rights Act when it fired her because she was a woman, the department says.

A separate investigation determined that Key Lime Air, which operates f

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