The Employees' Decade: Recent Developments Under the MHRA and the Employers' Potential Rebound. (Missouri Human Rights Act‪)‬

I. INTRODUCTION The law of unintended consequences provides that any action by people or the government will have effects that are unanticipated and unintended. (1) Yet, a failure to recognize this principle is generally not the problem. The problem is the impossibility of determining the scope of those effects from the outset--how much will those unintended effects adversely impact the actual intended effects of the statute. This concept undoubtedly lingers in the minds of legislatures during the drafting of a bill and the enactment of law. How will the court interpret these provisions? How will that interpretation impact businesses in Missouri? In light of these hard, if not impossible, questions, it is likely the long-term reaction and adaptation to those inevitable unintended effects that matters the most.