The Supreme Court said that it would hear cases that could decide whether employees who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer can be fired based on their identities. No national law explicitly bars employment discrimination against LGBTQ people, leaving many rules open for interpretation. About half of the U.S. LGBTQ population lives in states that allow employment discrimination, reports CNBC.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a federal civil rights law protects LGBTQ workers from job discrimination. Here's Bloomberg Law's look at the circuit split on the issue. https://lnkd.in/eYkW5-C
If you own a company or are in Human Resources-here is a court case you should be following: https://lnkd.in/gfRBSwm
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This seems to be one of those cases that is spurious and only got this far because of political optics instead of merit. First, once marriage equality became the law of the land, why didn't this be taken as a natural extension of that ruling? Second, anti-bias definitions have been broadened to include LGBT a long time ago for most organizations & have been incorporated in their charter, even though the law in their respective jurisdictions does not explicitly speak to that bias protection.