Advocates of fired federal workers are poised to pivot to class actions following the recent US Supreme Court ruling that ...

Nothing can happen until a complaint is filed,” said Jason Burkholder, who chairs a Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission's ...

Transgender and nonbinary Iowans will see their legal protections weakened this week when a law removing gender identity from ...

The concept of “protected classes” was born. “Racial desegregation in private employment,” as one scholar explained, “came only after Congress empowered” the EEOC.

Senate File 418 removes gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act, the decades-old law protecting Iowans from discrimination in employment, housing, education and public ...

Senate File 583 removes gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act, the decades-old law protecting Iowans from discrimination in employment, housing, education and public ...

Work Advice: What DEI rollbacks mean for workers Many are rightly concerned about what these changes mean for women, racial and religious minorities, people with disabilities, and transgender and ...

The move means that people can't be denied employment, housing, or business for having criminal backgrounds. Formerly incarcerated people are now a protected class in Kansas City, Missouri.

A Pittsburgh councilwoman wants to ban employment discrimination for people with medical marijuana cards. Legislation introduced Tuesday by Councilwoman Barb Warwick, D-Greenfield, would make ...

An effort to add weight to the list of protected classes will require challenging powerful institutions and public opinion, in which weight discrimination is deeply embedded. Recent research finds ...

But the councilwoman’s proposal to make homelessness a protected class may stall because some council colleagues and South Bend Mayor James Mueller aren’t yet convinced.