On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision, ruling that Title VII’s protection against sex-based discrimination in the workplace applies to sexual orientation and gender identity. The decision consolidated three lower court cases in which employers admittedly terminated employees based only on the employee’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Those courts were split on the issue of whether Title VII prohibited such discrimination. Bostock v Clayton County...
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