15 June 2020 at 03:30PM
Pride Month 2020 Sees a SCOTUS Victory for Workers
June is Pride month in the USA and what better time for the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to rule in favor of LGBT employees!
Today the SCOTUS ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 extends to cover sexual orientation discrimination. The Act prohibits employers to discrimnate based on a person's sex. Although it is unlikely that Congress was thinking about orientation when they passed the Act, the SCOTUS agreed it applies.
“An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court. “Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids."
Most states do not have laws protecting LGBT against workplace discrimination. Therefore this ruling impacts as many as 11.3 million people.
