A U.S. Supreme Court lg protectg gay and trans people om discrimatn at work was hailed by LGBT+ groups on Monday as the natn's most signifint moment the fight for equal rights sce same-sex marriage was legalized five years ago.
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- SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
- 15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY
- WORKERS N’T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR, SUPREME COURT L
- THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY
SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
In a landmark lg for LGBT rights, the Supreme Court said workers nnot be fired for beg gay or transgenr. * can i be fired for being gay *
The Supreme Court said Monday that workers nnot be fired for beg gay or transgenr, a blockbter lg for LGBT historic 6-3 cisn was wrten by Jtice Neil Gorsuch, a nservative appoted by Donald Tmp. "An dividual's homosexualy or transgenr stat is not relevant to employment cisns, " Gorsuch wrote the cisn, which applied to three separate s. "That's bee is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex.
The s were brought by three workers who said they were fired om their jobs bee they were gay or transgenr. " Bostock was fired om his job as a child welfare servic ordator 2013 after jog a gay softball league.
"Apple CEO Tim Cook, the first Fortune 500 chief executive to e out as gay, tweeted that he was grateful for the lg.
15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY
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Gorsuch wrote that discrimatg agast an employee bee they are gay or transgenr is by fn discrimatn on the basis of sex. "We no longer live a society where a Gay uple n be married on Friday and fired for that marriage on Monday. "Gregory Antollo, an attorney for Zarda, untered that "Don Zarda was a gay man who work skydivg were close ntact is required.
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WORKERS N’T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR, SUPREME COURT L
REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File PhotoIn a 6-3 cisn, the natn’s top urt cid gay and transgenr people are protected unr Tle VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans workplace discrimatn on the basis of sex, race, lor, natnal orig and relign.
“No trans people and no lbian or gay people n ever be fired or discrimated agast for beg gay or transgenr - that’s the immutable law of the land now, ” said Vandy Beth Glenn, who was fired 2007 when she me out as a trans woman.
Thk tank Movement Advancement Project, meang they uld be fired or harassed for beg gay or trans wh ltle legal reurse. “There are tly no words to scribe jt how elated I am, ” said Gerald Bostock, a Geia man who lost his job as a child welfare servic ordator after jog a gay softball team.
THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY
OPPOSITION TO THE RULING“We do not hate to regnize today a necsary nsequence of that legislative choice: an employer who fir an dividual merely for beg gay or transgenr fi the law. The Supreme Court on Monday led 6-3 a landmark cisn that gay and transgenr employe are protected by civil rights laws agast employer discrimatn.
A set of s that me before the urt had asked the jtic to ci whether Tle VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimatn on the basis of “sex, ” appli to gay and transgenr people. “Today, we mt ci whether an employer n fire someone simply for beg homosexual or transgenr, ” Gorsuch wrote.