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Showing posts with label LGBTQ Discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LGBTQ Discrimination. Show all posts
Monday, December 19, 2022

Your religion isn’t a license to discriminate (but we may need to accommodate you anyway)

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Pronouns confuse me. It's not that I want to misgender anyone. In fact, quite to the contrary, I try really hard to get people's pro...
Monday, June 13, 2022

LGBTQ+ rights vs. religious liberty

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"It's an abomination to God. Rainbow is not meant to be displayed as a sign for sexual gender." That's what Daniel Snyder ...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Series of promotions dooms gay brewery employee’s sex discrimination claim

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Midland Brewing Company hired Ryan Boshaw to work as a server. Over the span of nine months, it promoted him three times, to an hourly manag...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The customer isn’t always right, especially when the customer wants you to discriminate

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"I'm afraid we can't hire you because you won't mix well with our customers." That's what the EEOC alleges a north...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Transgender bathroom access remains a solution in search of a problem

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a school district challenging the right of a transgender student to use the bat...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Explaining the EEOC’s brand-new LGBTQ+ resources in three words

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Yesterday, Bostock v. Clayton County —the Supreme Court decision which held that Title VII expressly covers and protects gay and transgender...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Let's meet employees where they are on their pronouns

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In Meriwether v. Hartop , the 6th Circuit recently decided that a state university cannot force a professor to use students' preferred g...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Civil rights is not a pizza

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Among the litany of executive orders President Biden issued in his first two days in office was one on Preventing and Combating Discriminat...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

“Religious freedom” ≠ freedom to discriminate (but sometimes it must be accommodated anyway)

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The EEOC has sued an Arkansas Kroger after it fired two of its employees for allegedly objecting to its new dress code that required employe...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Ohio legislature refuses to move on LGBTQ employment protections despite strong state-wide, bipartisan support to the contrary

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There is no law in the state of Ohio that prohibits employers from discriminating against employees based on their sexual orientation or ge...
Monday, November 18, 2019

Gay man claims he’s the victim of intentional discrimination because of his sexual orientation … and that’s the least of his employer’s problems

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Wesley Wernecke, an ex-employee of New York event planning company Eventique, claims in his recently filed lawsuit that the company intent...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

“Tone down your gayness” = $20 million

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A jury has awarded a St. Louis County police officer nearly $20 million over allegations that his superiors repeatedly denied him a promot...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

This is what sex discrimination will look like if the Department of Justice gets its wish to legalize sex stereotyping

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Last week the Department of Justice (on behalf of its client, the EEOC), filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to conclude that “s ex st...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

The EEOC asks the Supreme Court to legalize sex discrimination

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This fall, the Supreme Court will hear argument in three cases to decide whether Title VII’s coverage of sex discrimination also implicit...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Government sanctioned discrimination is abhorrent and we, as a nation, should be ashamed

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Trigger warning: today’s post is not for everyone. If, however, you are offended by what I am about to say, then today’s post is specifica...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Supreme Court grants review in three cases to decide, once and for all, whether Title VII protects LGBTQ employees from discrimination

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals in three cases, to decide whether Title VII's prohibition against "sex discrimi...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Does Title VII protect heterosexuals from discrimination?

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So meet, ROBERTa! Shopping in the women’s department for a swimsuit at the BR Target. For all of you people that say you don’t care what ba...
Monday, January 14, 2019

What's good for the goose? "Reverse" LGBTQ discrimination

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If, like me, you believe that Title VII's definition of "sex" includes sexual orientation and gender identity, then what do yo...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Job applicant told, "Your sexuality may be an issue with the atmosphere of the office environment."

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I found the following story posted to the legaladvice subreddit . It's titled, "Turned down for a job, asked what the issues were...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Why the federal government's culture war against LGBTQ rights might not matter

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You would do well to remember just how fluid is gender "Second Wave Goodbye," War on Women According to the New York Times...