The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission exceeded its authority when it laid out its worker-friendly take on the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock opinion, a Texas federal judge found, striking down parts of agency anti-harassment guidance that interpreted the landmark ruling's implications for gay and transgender workers.
Minneapolis lawmakers recently approved a sweeping revamp of the city's civil rights statute, bolstering safeguards for workers with criminal histories, prohibiting discrimination based on body size and making a slew of other revisions that expand legal pathways for workers to challenge bias. Here are three things employers and workers should know before those changes kick in this summer.
The writing may be on the wall for two fired labor officials' defenses of orders restoring them to work as they make their cases Friday to three D.C. Circuit judges who have already weighed in on their joint test of the president's power to remove executive appointees.