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Discrimination is prejudicial treatment related to (or inappropriate consideration of) an individual's actual or perceived membership in a particular class, group or category, such as an individual's... more +

Client Alert: Title IX, “Gender Ideology,” and Recent Enforcement Activity: What Higher Education Institutions Need to Know

Jenner & Block on 2/27/2025

Recent executive orders, federal guidance, and enforcement activity have made clear that the Trump Administration plans to interpret and apply Title IX in new and different ways. This includes an understanding of sex as an...more

Navigating the Rock & the Hard Place: Conflicting Federal and State Mandates for LGBTQ Employees

Foley & Lardner LLP on 5/14/2024

“The rock and the hard place.” How often do employers find themselves here? If employers have LGBTQ employees in certain states, they are now bumping up against the “rock” of federal laws, like Title VII and Title IX, and the...more

Five EEOC Initiatives to Monitor on the Agency’s Silver Anniversary

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/23/2015

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) opened its doors on July 2, 1965, exactly one year after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII of that act (“Title VII”) prohibits...more

U.S. Army Loses Battle to Regulate Bathroom Selection of Transgender (Civilian) Employee

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/15/2015

On April 1, 2015, the EEOC ordered the Army to pay damages for discriminating against a transgender employee when it prevented her from using the common women’s bathroom and routinely demeaned her by calling her “sir” and...more

Avoid Being the Test Case for Gender Identity Discrimination

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and... on 2/3/2015

A former sales associate at Saks Fifth Avenue’s Houston, Texas store recently filed suit in federal court claiming discrimination based on her gender identity. Leyth Jamal is a transgender individual who identifies as a...more

EEOC Files Landmark Suits Challenging Transgender Discrimination Under Title VII

K&L Gates LLP on 1/19/2015

For years, it has been widely understood that federal law prohibits employers from making decisions on the basis of certain protected characteristics, such as race, religion, or sex. Historically, the inclusion of “sex” in...more

BREAKING: EEOC files first transgender suits against private employers

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 9/29/2014

Bloomberg BNA reports this afternoon that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed two transgender discrimination lawsuits yesterday, the agency’s first ever against private-sector employers. One is against a...more

EEOC Sues Detroit Funeral Home Chain for Sex Discrimination Against Transgender Employee

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/26/2014

Lawsuit Is One of Two the Agency Filed Today - the First Suits in Its History - Challenging Transgender Discrimination Under 1964 Civil Rights Act - DETROIT- Detroit-based R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc....more

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