Photo by Igor Ovsyannykov on Unsplash Workplace diversity has two sides. One side says that employers cannot discriminate against min...

By ABC TV [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I am not a tattoo person. Yet, a whole lot of people are. And the numbers are increas...

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash Yesterday, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals joined a growing number of federal appellate cour...

Photo by Matias Rengel on Unsplash Yesterday, the 2nd Circuit federal court of appeals (which covers New York, Connecticut, and Vermont...

Last week I presented a webinar entitled, “The Top 10 Employee Handbook Mistakes.” I discussed, among other policies,  missing at-will dis...

“As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens.…” Those were the words of then nominee Donald J. ...

Two stories this week caught my attention: EEOC Sues Malcolm S. Gerald & Associates for Sexual Orientation Discrimination ; and Is ...

I have enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with Workforce Magazine . I’ve been blogging at workforce.com for the past five-plus years....

LGBTQ prohibitions continue to make headway in the courts. While Congress has remained silent on the issue, more and more state and federa...

The ADA expressly excludes from its coverage “transvestism, transsexualism, … [and] gender identity disorders not resulting from physical...

The 6th Circuit is currently considering whether Title VII’s definition of “sex discrimination”. EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral ...

If you spend any time reading or watching the news today, you will inevitably encounter much about the 7th Circuit’s historic (and corre...

Late last week, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in Evans v. Georgia Regional Hosp. [pdf] , held that Title VII does not protect sexual-...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court reversed an earlier decision that would have heard the appeal of a 4th Circuit opinion granting a transgende...

Those of you who have been reading this blog for any length of time should know that I strongly believe that it is a national embarrassm...

It’s been more than a year since the EEOC first announced that it would accept LGBT-discrimination charges as sex-discrimination charges ...

Last week, a Michigan federal judge rejected the EEOC’s claim that Title VII covers transgender status or gender identity as protected cla...

In  Hivley v. Ivy Tech Community College (7th Cir. 7/28/16) [pdf] , the 7th Circuit ruled that Title VII does not prohibit sexual-orient...

The District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, in connection with the National LGBTQ Task Force, recently published a 19-page best pract...

In the blogging world, when you snooze, you lose. Yesterday, my fellow bloggers were all over the EEOC’s publication of guidance on bathro...