The U.S. Supreme Court on June 5 made it easier for workers to file so-called "reverse discrimination" lawsuits after siding with Ohio worker Marlean Ames who claimed she didn't get a job and was ...

Combatting the five most common forms of workplace discrimination. Workplace discrimination, in any form, can poison company culture, stifle innovation and depress morale. But the harmful effects go ...

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a straight woman who sued her gay boss for discrimination From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered ...

The Trump administration is preparing an escalation in its unrelenting assault on the rights of LGBTQ Americans. According to a New York Times report, the Department of Health and Human Services is ...

Most laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, religion, etc. also make it unlawful to retaliate against someone who complains about or helps to support another person’s claim of ...

Duke’s Office for Institutional Equity recently updated its Policy on Prohibited Discrimination, Harassment and Related Misconduct to include a definition of Islamophobia, among other changes. The ...

Yale added the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s, or IHRA, definition of antisemitism to its webpage on anti-discrimination procedures. The IHRA definition states that antisemitism ...

There was a time when human resources practitioners and employment attorneys could list the “protected classes”–groups of people protected from discrimination and harassment in the workplace–like ...

This December, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to take action to combat digital discrimination. Equitable access to broadband is an important objective, and the agency has long ...