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 ...

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 ...

In 2020, the nation’s high court decided that the definition of sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which pertains to employment law, includes sexual orientation and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Supreme Court on June 5 made it easier for workers to file so-called "reverse discrimination" lawsuits after siding with ...

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 ...

Duke’s Office for Institutional Equity recently updated its Policy on Prohibited Discrimination, Harassment and Related Misconduct to include a definition of Islamophobia, among other changes. 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 ...

In a landmark decision, Michigan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a state law against sex discrimination also protects individuals from discrimination based on their sexual orientation. In an opinion ...

"Reverse discrimination" lawsuits will now be "easier to bring," said Noah Feldman in Bloomberg. The Supreme Court last week ruled unanimously in favor of a woman who argued she was discriminated ...

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 ...