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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Summer of #LoveWins

Such was the process followed by the complainant in Baldwin. David Baldwin was a supervisory air traffic control specialist with the Federal Aviation Administration in Miami. Assuming that he would ... read more

Trump-appointed federal judge rules against Biden-era sex-based employment discrimination guidance

A Trump-appointed federal judge slapped down portions of Biden-era Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance that claims Title VII protections against sex-based employment discrimination ... read more

Supreme Court Reaffirms Rule that Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation is Sex Discrimination

Yesterday's unanimous Supreme Court decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services is primarily notable for the ruling that members of "majority" groups alleging employment discrimination under ... read more

Divided 11th Circuit rejects Title VII challenge to employer’s denial of coverage for gender-affirming surgery

The full bench (“en banc”) of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Sept. 9 rejected a challenge under Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of ... read more

Justice Kavanaugh: ‘The rules are the same’ in sexual orientation discrimination cases

The Supreme Court appears poised to side with an Ohio woman claiming she faced workplace discrimination for being heterosexual, a case that could reshape how majority groups pursue discrimination ... read more

EEOC tells its workers to halt LGBTQ+ discrimination claim processing

Despite the sea change at EEOC, employers should continue to maintain a policy of nondiscrimination, according to Jonathan Hyman, shareholder at Wickens Herzer Panza. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 ... read more

Government Commission Halts Investigations of LGBTQ+ Workplace Discrimination

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has temporarily halted ... read more

EEOC Says Title VII’s Religious-Organization Exemption Doesn’t Apply to Sex Discrimination Claims

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency tasked with preventing and remedying employment discrimination, recently filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit, arguing that ... read more

Can straight people sue for discrimination?

Long-time observers of the U.S. Supreme Court might have been wondering recently why the court would have spent its scarce oral argument time on an issue on which all sides already agree. The case was ... read more