Category: Employment Law

  • Yes or no? Are LGBT workers protected by federal law or not?

    he debate rages on. Title VII of the seminal Civil Rights Act passed by Congress in 1964 extended workplace protections against discrimination on myriad grounds. Notably, protection for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community was not included in the list of safeguarded categories, and that continues to be the case today. A recent article…