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Georgia had no law protecting LGBT people from employment discrimination at the time. [7] Bostock believed that the county used the claim of misspent funds as a pretext for firing him for being gay, and sought legal recourse for workplace discrimination in 2016 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court civil rights case which ruled that under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 employees could not be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
In 2020, 8.9% of employed LGBT people, including 11.3% of LGBT employees of color and 6.5% of white LGBT employees, reported being fired or not hired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. 29.0% of LGBT employees of color said they were not hired because of their LGBT status, compared to 18.3% of white LGBT employees.
The three plaintiffs in the Supreme Court’s landmark LGBTQ workplace discrimination ruling were inducted into the U.S. Department of Labor’s Hall of Honor on Wednesday.. Gerald Bostock, Aimee ...
While the nation’s highest court says you can’t be fired for your sexual orientation or gender identity under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there are still gaps. Then there are gaps in ...
Nearly 1 in 10 LGBTQ people in the United States experienced workplace discrimination in the last year, and almost half faced employment bias at some point
The case dealt with Masterpiece Cakeshop, a bakery in Lakewood, Colorado, which refused to design a custom wedding cake for a gay couple based on the owner's religious beliefs. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission evaluated the case under the state's anti-discrimination law, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. The commission found that the ...
The momentous decision finds that federal law protects employees from discrimination for sexual orientation and gender identity. Supreme Court Rules LGBTQ Employees Are Protected From ...