The Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that companies could require employees to resolve their employment law claims through individual arbitration rather than by class action or ordinary lawsuits. After the ruling, it was widely expected that companies would...
Month: November 2018
Supreme Court rules unanimously on age-discrimination case
Federal age-discrimination laws apply to governmental entities regardless of their size, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its first opinion of the court’s current term. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion for the court’s unanimous 8-0 decision, which was...
Justice Department argues transgender isn’t protected by law
Two years ago, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination against transgender individuals. “Discrimination against employees, either because of their...