The upcoming Supreme Court season has the Court considering whether to take cases of great import to our LGBTQ+ community regarding discrimination at work.
Here's part of today's article from Law360 discussing them.
Law360 (September 21, 2018, 10:16 PM EDT) -- After a 2017 term that yielded the blockbuster Epic Systems and Janus decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to kick off a new session that could see the justices tackle a growing circuit split on whether federal anti-discrimination law protects gay and transgender workers.
Here, Law360 looks at five cert petitions employers should have on their radar. Altitude Express Inc. and Ray Maynard v. Zarda; Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia ...In both cases, the justices are considering petitions that present the same fundamental issue: whether Title VII’s ban on sex-based discrimination can be interpreted as prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation...
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC The Supreme Court is also considering a separate petition by R.G. & G.R Harris Funeral Homes over whether Title VII’s ban on sex discrimination covers discrimination based on gender identity. The funeral home is challenging a Sixth Circuit decision that the federal anti-discrimination statute does protect transgender people, which revived a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit challenging its decision to fire worker Aimee Stephens.
The EEOC had alleged the business violated Title VII by firing Stephens after she told her boss she would transition to a female gender identity and wanted to dress in women’s clothing at work. Additionally, the funeral home also asked the high court to evaluate whether its 1989 decision in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins — which said sex stereotyping is protected under Title VII — prohibits employers from applying sex-specific dress codes according to their employees’ sex rather than their gender identity... https://ift.tt/2IbVlXy
See this link: https://www.law360.com/employment/articles/1085105/5-supreme-court-petitions-employers-should-watch?nl_pk=8a8ce1fc-75c7-4ce5-917e-8a07a0ec3dcd&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=employment
