Court agrees to hear Title VII employer discrimination case

Court agrees to hear Title VII employer discrimination case

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The Supreme Court agreed to decide what protections Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides to employees who contend they were the victim of a discriminatory transfer. The justices announced on Friday that they had granted review in Muldrow v. St. Louis and six other cases, two of which will be argued together. (I covered one of those cases, United States v. Rahimi, in a separate article.)

The question comes to the court in the … Read the rest

Wedded to The Law – striking marital discrimination failure explained (UK)

As the next in our occasional series of posts about The Law, here is a new Employment Appeal Tribunal decision so morally unjust that even the Judge himself didn’t want to make it.

Mrs Bacon was married to the majority shareholder of their joint employer, Advanced Fire Solutions Limited.  She was also employee, director and shareholder of AFS.  When she told her husband that she wanted to separate (but from him, not it) , he promptly demonstrated beyond reasonable argument … Read the rest