LGBTQIA+ job equality ruling could boost US economy

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LGBTQIA+ job equality ruling could boost US economy

Jon Hay
June 17, 2020 04:00 AM
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October 8, 2019, Washington, DC, U.S: VALERIE ROSS from Brooklyn NY is emotional after LGBTQ rights cases are heard as she leaves at rally in Washington DC on October 8, 2019. She is a supporter of the LGBT community. The Supreme Court will hear three cases about whether it is legal to fire workers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Ross said, ‘We’ve been down this road before. I’m worried and have a strong sense of outrage… We didn’t think we could defeat slavery and we did. We didn’t think we could get the vote. Your freedom is bound up in mine. If one of us is unsafe, none of us is safe. We are a family and that includes Mother Earth… I want Trump gone, gone, gone.’.Lower courts have split and the Trump administration argues that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act does not provide such protections.The cases are significant because Kennedy -- long a champion of LGBT rights-- has been replaced by his former clerk, Kavanaugh..At issue are two cases -- Bostock v. Clayton and Altitude v. Zarda -- that concern discrimination based on sexual orientation, and a third, R.G. and G.R. v. EEOC, that targets gender identity.The transgender case is especially noteworthy because it represents the first civil rights case concerning transgender individuals that the Supreme Court has ever heard. It concerns Aimee Stephens who worked for six years as a funeral director before announcing that she was transitioning. She informed her boss in 2013 and two weeks later was fired. The case could have broader implications when it comes to the areas of housing and education. (Credit Image: © Carol Guzy/ZUMA Wire) | Carol Guzy/Zuma Press/PA Images

Campaigners for equality for lesbian, gay and transgender people in the US hailed a historic victory on Monday, when the Supreme Court for the first time made it illegal throughout the country for employers to discriminate against staff on grounds of sexual or gender orientation.

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