On April 17, 2024, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, holding that while an employee challenging a job transfer under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...more
On Jan. 15, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published updated guidance to its Compliance Manual on Religious Discrimination. The revised guidance, the first substantial update since 2008, came just five...more
An employer who waits too long to object that a plaintiff failed to file a charge of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) before filing a lawsuit under Title VII may have waived that...more
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The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in deciding Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College on April 4, 2017, became the first federal appellate court to conclude that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits workplace...more
On April 4, 2017, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals became the first federal appellate court to conclude that workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation is sex discrimination and violates Title VII of the Civil...more
Certainly, the trend in employment law has been toward greater equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees. Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land due to the Supreme Court’s ruling last summer...more