Stephanie Astono Salim, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yep, we’re celebrating! On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Bostock v. Clayton County that an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender has violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.…
Daniel Barcelona, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Did I ever tell you guys about the wacky race discrimination case I defended involving a male fast-food franchise employee caught on video smacking a female co-worker? Both the violence and subsequent bogus race discrimination claim were unsettling. Still, it was…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com In 2019, the House of Representatives made history when it passed the Equality Act, a comprehensive LGBT rights bill. More than just workplace rights. The Equality Act would amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal anti-discrimination law for the workplace, to clarify that discrimination based…
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons On Monday, I blogged about President Biden’s first HR-compliance wish list, which focused on COVID-19 mitigation efforts. On Wednesday, President Biden was sworn in. And, folks, he wasted no time making moves that will impact…
Image by Mike Braun from Pixabay On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate based on sex, also prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and transgender…
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash As you’ve no doubt heard by now, yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender has violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII is the federal workplace law…
wallyg [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsNot exactly. For example, here is a situation in which a woman sued her former employer for violating the Family and Medical Leave Act. After the plaintiff initiated the action in federal court, she died. Did that end the case? No. Indeed, Rule 25…
By Franz Jantzen, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States – https://www.oyez.org/justices/neil_gorsuch, Public Domain, Link After reading 133 pages of transcripts from yesterday’s two (1, 2) oral arguments in the three LGBT workplace rights cases pending before the Supreme Court, three things are clear to me: First, the…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com It’s been a while since the Supreme Court weighed in on a big-time employment-law issue. That’s about to change. Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in three cases: EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. Bostock v. Clayton County Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc.…
By Ivan Curra, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link (Not pictured: Eric Meyer; probably off grabbing a Dole Whip (adult version) and a turkey leg). Folks, the blog posts may not be as fast and furious (i.e., daily) as usual this week. That’s because, yes, I am vacationing with the family in…