Supreme Court Rules Firing Workers For Being LGBTQ Is Illegal
Here’s some good news in celebration of Pride month. On Monday, The Supreme Court issued its opinion on a historic case about LGBT employment discrimination, with the majority deciding that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, also applies to the LGBTQ community.
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According to The Associated Press, the court decided by a 6-3 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that bars job discrimination because of sex, among other reasons, encompasses bias against LGBT workers.
“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. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court.”
For those who are not aware, the LGBTQ community is made of up of approximately 1 million workers who identify as transgender and 7.1 million lesbian, gay and bisexual workers, according to UCLA’s Williams Institute.
It was said that a ruling on similar protections for transgender people is also expected soon, 9News notes.
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