The deadline for employers to submit and certify 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 Data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is Monday, August 23, 2021. Covered employers therefore have a little over one month...more
In a seminal 6–3 decision for LGBTQ rights on Monday, June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States held plainly: An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law. The Opinion by...more
6/17/2020
/ Altitude Express Inc v Zarda ,
Bostock v Clayton County Georgia ,
Civil Rights Act ,
EEOC v RG & GR Harris Funeral Homes ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Gender Identity ,
Hiring & Firing ,
LGBTQ ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Transgender
On October 8, 2019, the United States Supreme Court heard two oral arguments in three highly anticipated cases centered on the controversial issue of whether sexual orientation and transgender status fall within the protected...more
10/25/2019
/ Altitude Express Inc v Zarda ,
Bostock v Clayton County Georgia ,
Civil Rights Act ,
EEOC v RG & GR Harris Funeral Homes ,
Employment Litigation ,
Gender Identity ,
Hiring & Firing ,
LGBTQ ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Transgender
With its en banc decision on February 26, 2018 in Melissa Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc., No. 15-3775 (2d Cir. Feb. 26, 2018), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals became the second federal appeals court to hold that sexual...more
The Fourth Circuit recently upheld a lower court decision granting summary judgment to the employer in an employment discrimination suit brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”) and Maryland law,...more