June 15, 2020

US Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of LGBT Employees

By Newsroom

A major win for the LGBT community came on Monday as the US Supreme Court has ruled that employers who fire workers for being gay or transgender are breaking the country’s civil rights laws.

The 6-3 ruling, which comes during Pride Month, said federal law, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, should be understood to include sexual orientation.

Attorneys representing the employers in the matter argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act had not been intended to apply to cases involving sexual orientation or transgender.

It’s a position that was also endorsed by the Donald Trump administration.

However Judge Neil Gorsuch ruled otherwise, saying  “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,” he wrote. “The limits of the drafters’ imagination supply no reason to ignore the law’s demands.”

 

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