On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision extending employment discrimination protections to LGBTQ employees across the country. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in the workplace on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Unlike some state employment discrimination statutes, Title VII … Read more
On January 25, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an amendment to State law banning employment discrimination based on gender identity or expression. This action codifies employee protections that were arguably already in place through New York Division of Human Rights regulations. The New York State Assembly had passed the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act … Read more
There are an estimated 1.4 million individuals in the United States who identify as transgender. People may consider themselves transgender or gender nonconforming if their gender identity is inconsistent with the sex they were assigned at birth. Transgender individuals often go through a transition, where they adopt different pronouns, receive hormone treatments, and sometimes undergo … Read more