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A governor just sued his own attorney general over LGBT employment protections

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The attorney general said he wasn’t going to stop blocking contracts unless he was sued, so the governor sued. Louisiana’s governor just sued its attorney general over whether lawyers the state hires should be allowed to discriminate against LGBT people. If that sounds odd, that’s because it is. And though there’s an easy moral answer to …

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House Republicans stand strong for anti-LGBT discrimination in the wake of Orlando shootings

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LGBT people may be able to marry, but in many states they can also be fired or not hired because they’re LGBT. And House Republicans are fighting to keep that from changing. President Obama’s executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity went into effect in 2015. Democratic …

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New Research Meta-Analysis Makes Compelling Case For Nondiscrimination Protections

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Our guest blogger is Crosby Burns, Research Associate for LGBT Progress. Today the Center for American Progress, the Human Rights Campaign, and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law released a comprehensive database of research documenting the immediate need for federal policies that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. This database includes nearly 40 …

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Starbucks Served Venti-Sized Discrimination Lawsuit

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Twenty-five year old Eli Pierre has only one full arm, but he says he’s never been told there was something he couldn’t do. That is, until last month, when a San Diego, California Starbucks interviewed and then refused to hire him. Mr. Pierre is now suing the Seattle-based company in California state court alleging discrimination …

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Wisconsin Legislature Votes To Repeal Employment Discrimination Law

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Wisconsin prohibits employers from discriminating “on the basis of age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, national origin, ancestry, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or …

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Companies Can’t Discriminate, But Their Managers Can: The Supreme Court Gives Wal-Mart the Win in Dukes Gender Discrimination Class Action Case

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Today the Supreme Court sounded the death knell for Dukes v. Wal-Mart, the class action lawsuit accusing Wal-Mart of paying and promoting women less than similarly- or less-qualified men. To protect corporations from having to do more to prevent gender discrimination than pop a few politically correct paragraphs into the employee handbook, the Supreme Court …

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Women, Black Workers Hard Hit by Attacks on Public Employees

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The improved jobs figures out last Friday obscured the ongoing decline in public-sector jobs. As the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics noted when releasing the March unemployment data: Employment in local government continued to trend down over the month. Local government has lost 416,000 jobs since an employment peak in September 2008. The loss of …

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Great Disability Rights Opinion From Seventh Circuit For Employees And Their Lawyers

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Employee With MS Wins Appeal In Seventh Circuit “Regarded As” Disability Decision A case was decided by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals last week that was an important victory for the employee as well as his lawyers. In Brunker v. Schwan’s Home Service, Inc. the Court reversed judgment in favor of Schwan’s on Brunker’s …

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Important Decision From Sixth Circuit in Discriminatory Failure to Promote Case

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Female Officer Wins Big In Fight For Discriminatory Denial Of Promotion It’s not uncommon for women to be passed over for promotions they deserve – but proving gender discrimination has been difficult. The good news is that the recent decision from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Risch v. Royal Oak Police Department will …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.

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