The Trump administration is preparing an escalation in its unrelenting assault on the rights of LGBTQ Americans. According to a New York Times report, the Department of Health and Human Services is ...

There was a time when human resources practitioners and employment attorneys could list the “protected classes”–groups of people protected from discrimination and harassment in the workplace–like ...

The Supreme Court‘s landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County is changing civil rights law despite the narrow scope of its purview. In 2020, the nation’s high court decided that the definition of ...

Can employees in Western Pennsylvania sue their employer for sexual orientation discrimination under federal law? Right now, the answer is no – but that may be changing soon. The EEOC is seeking to ...

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The LGBT community is celebrating a victory after a City Council decision to expand the definition of discrimination. The Council voted Tuesday to include gender identification and expression in the ...

The Missouri Supreme Court, whose building is pictured here, ruled in a case brought by a gay man who alleged he was subjected to sex discrimination by his employer because he didn't exhibit ...

The Department of Labor is chasing Google over claims that there is significant gender pay discrimination within the company. At the moment it's more about access to more information than anything ...

The Coalition government’s proposed religious discrimination bill has been criticised for the potential problems it poses for women, the LGBTQI+ community, people with disabilities and people from ...