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January 17, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday Representatives Bobby Scott, Stephanie Murphy, and Mark Pocan and Senators Patty Murray and Bernie Sanders announced their introduction of the Raise the Wage Act of 2019. The bill would gradually increase the federal minimum wage from its present rate of $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour by 2024. While minimum wage workers in […]

October 26, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

While the U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief to the Supreme Court this week arguing that Title VII’s workplace discrimination protections do not extend explicitly to transgender or transitioning workers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Acting Chair Victoria Lipnic said the agency has no plans to stop enforcing the law based on its more […]

October 25, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

In a brief to the Supreme Court yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice argued that Title VII’s prohibition against workplace discrimination on the basis of sex does not protect workers against discrimination on the basis of transgender identity or transitioning status. The brief was filed in opposition to a petition for writ of certiorari filed […]

Weekend News & Commentary — August 25–26, 2018

Aug 26, 2018 Jenny Braun

On Saturday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected a series of President Trump’s executive orders. Jackson ruled that boosting federal agencies’ firing rights would deny collective bargaining rights for federal workers. Thus, the three executive orders Trump signed in May violated the NLRA, for they side-stepped […]

Sixth Circuit Rejects RFRA Defense and Holds Title VII Bans Anti-Transgender Discrimination

Mar 8, 2018 Alexa Kissinger

Yesterday in EEOC v. R.G. &. G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, the Sixth Circuit held that “Title VII protects transgender persons because of their transgender or transitioning status” as a form of sex discrimination. In comprehensive and unequivocal language, the court also rejected the Funeral Home’s asserted RFRA defense that employing Stephens while she represented herself as a woman would […]

January 2, 2018
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

The new tax plan went into effect yesterday and will allow many pass-through companies to deduct up to 20% of their business income. The Boston Globe predicts that the change will lead gig workers to form LLCs in order to avail themselves of the deduction. The New York Times opines that this change will make […]

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Sixth Circuit Rejects RFRA Defense and Holds Title VII Bans Anti-Transgender Discrimination

January 2, 2018