The U.S. Justice Department has finalized a significant change to its civil rights enforcement framework, eliminating the use ...

The year 2025 has been an eventful one for employment law, and 2026 may well bring further important changes in this space.

The law "draws no distinctions between majority-group plaintiffs and minority-group plaintiffs," said Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who wrote the opinion. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) The ...

Hiring or promotion practices that “prioritizes candidates from underrepresented groups” for admission, hiring, promotion, bypassing qualified candidates who do not belong to those groups. Creating a ...

Help us end LGBT discrimination on the job. Congress is poised to introduce federal legislation outlawing LGBT discrimination in the workplace. But we still need your help to persuade lawmakers in ...

The head of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has urged white men to report workplace discrimination based on ...

A recent executive order by President Donald Trump has sparked much debate on the role of anti-discrimination laws, the treatment of protected classes and the need for meritocracy. The order ...

Legal experts remind business leaders that it is is still illegal for most employers to discriminate against employees because of their transgender status. The Trump Administration’s campaign against ...

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California prohibits the use of credit history to reject applicants with housing assistance without considering pay stubs and ...

Seattle City Council outlawed caste-based discrimination this week, a centuries-old form of social stratification with roots in South Asia, following years of activist organizing and similar bans at ...

The Ute Indian Tribe is suing Colorado for discrimination in federal court, alleging that a recently passed law denies the ...