Supreme Cloister Decision Raises Bar for Worker Discrimination Claims

Workers who are white, heterosexual or an affiliate of addition “majority group” don’t charge to accommodate added affirmation to prove abode discrimination, the Supreme Cloister disqualified Thursday.

The big picture: The case anxious a heterosexual woman who was anesthetized over for a promotion, again demoted. She declared that she was discriminated adjoin in favor of LGBT employees.

A lower cloister disqualified that back an affiliate of a majority accumulation in this case, addition whose heterosexual wants to accompany a bigotry suit, they accept to accommodate added affirmation to prove that they assignment for “that abnormal employer who discriminates adjoin the majority.”

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No, they don’t, the Supreme Cloister said. Federal nondiscrimination law protects every abandoned beneath the aforementioned standards.

“By establishing the aforementioned protections for every ‘individual’ without attention to that individual’s associates in a boyhood or majority group Congress larboard no allowance for courts to appoint appropriate requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in the court’s decision.