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Businesses Navigate Rift Between Religious, LGBTQ+ Worker Rights
4+ hour, 17+ min ago (113+ words) Bloomberg Law News Employers are increasingly managing heightened tensions between workers with conservative religious beliefs and their LGBTQ+ colleagues, balancing the difficulties of fully protecting one group without inviting discrimination litigation from the other. This legal conflict has become more…...
Fed Ex Fends Off Black LGBTQ+ Worker's Discriminatory Firing Case
3+ week, 17+ hour ago (119+ words) Bloomberg Law News A Fed Ex Corp. subsidiary is free of a lawsuit alleging it discriminated against a Black LGBTQ+ employee when it fired her following a dispute with a coworker, a federal judge in Tennessee said. Nothing in the…...
First Circuit Backs Professor's Firing After Class LGBTQ+ Talks
3+ week, 3+ day ago (122+ words) Bloomberg Law News A former tenured Salve Regina University Spanish professor failed to prove that her gender, race, sexual orientation, age, and religion played a role in her termination following classroom complaints about her assigned reading and discussions regarding LGBTQ…...
High Court Conversion Therapy Decision Underscores Trump Efforts
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (988+ words) The US Supreme Court's ruling against Colorado's ban on conversation therapy sparked concern among legal analysts that a door is opening for further state and federal limits on transgender rights through litigation and enforcement. Nearly 30 states restrict LGBTQ conversion therapy…...
Christian Entity Keeps Hiring Block Against State LGBTQ+ Law (1)
6+ mon, 19+ hour ago (125+ words) Christian Group Retains Bar on State LGBTQ+ Bias Law Enforcement'Bloomberg Law News Washington state can't enforce its LGBTQ+ bias protections against a Christian ministry while the organization's preemptive lawsuit over its policy to only hire individuals who share its beliefs…...
Massachusetts Parent Can Opt Kindergartner Out of LGBTQ+ Studies
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (87+ words) Bloomberg Law News A Massachusetts parent can choose not to have his kindergartner participate in a curriculum containing LGBTQ+ materials, a federal judge ruled. Lexington Public Schools must provide notice and opt-out opportunities to Alan L. , a parent who objects to…...
Trump's HHS Agrees to Restore LGBTQ+, Reproductive Health Data
10+ mon, 4+ day ago (243+ words) Federal LGBTQ and reproductive health web pages taken down by the Trump administration will be restored online following a litigation settlement between the US Department of Health and Human Services and several public health organizations. Public health data access "saves…...