The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on which job actions are covered under Title VII, while lower courts will apply a new religious accommodations test to a Christian teacher's bias suit and potentially help clarify the scope of a law banning mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims. Here, Law360 looks at three discrimination cases that ought to be on lawyers' radar in the coming year.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released draft enforcement guidance on workplace harassment Friday, shedding light on the subject roughly six years after an earlier attempt to update the agency's harassment advice stalled during former President Donald Trump's administration.
The Fourth Circuit on Thursday declined to revive a disability discrimination and retaliation suit by an ex-intelligence analyst for a government contractor, upholding a lower court's conclusion that he'd been let go for a legitimate reason: He lost his security clearance and couldn't enter the job site.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission unveiled proposed regulations Monday for implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a law enacted in late 2022 that requires employers to make reasonable changes in the workplace to help employees who have pregnancy-related limitations do their jobs.
A Ninth Circuit panel appeared inclined to revive a disability discrimination suit by a United Airlines baggage handler who asked to wear a face shield instead of a mask at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with one judge asking Monday if a jury should weigh whether the request was reasonable.