The plaintiff was not the target, and a reasonable person would not consider the circumstances severe enough under Title VII to be abusive or harassing, a federal magistrate found. There’s little ...

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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 created major employment nondiscrimination protections and established the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ahead of the law’s upcoming 60th ...

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency tasked with preventing and remedying employment discrimination, recently filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit, arguing that ...

On the surface, the final U.S. Supreme Court argument of 2023 was about a female St. Louis police sergeant who claimed she was transferred from a prestigious position because of her sex. But the ...

This is the second of two posts explaining my recent article, Ordinary Meaning as Last Resort: The Meaning of "Undue Hardship" in Title VII. In the first post I attempted to show that a comprehensive ...

An examination of religious discrimination and accommodation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including federal prohibitions on discrimination, harassment, and retaliation targeting ...

In late 2024, American Airlines agreed to end certain DEI-focused hiring and employment practices after facing a complaint from conservative group America First Legal, alleging that the airline’s ...

May a religious group legally fire a non-ministerial employee (like a secretary or janitor) for violating the group's religious beliefs about sex or marriage? As I explained yesterday, this is the ...