(CN) — An Alabama company's refusal to hire a job applicant because she wouldn't cut her dreadlocks is not considered racial discrimination, a federal appellate court ruled on Thursday. The 11th ...

Michigan Tech has adopted internal complaint/grievance procedures providing for prompt and equitable resolutions of complaints alleging any prohibited action under the Board of Trustees Policies 5.1-5 ...

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This week we focus on a new case looking at the difficulties between balancing protections of religious belief with the rights and protections of LGBTQI+ individuals. The claimant was an evangelical ...

New York State will vastly expand the scope of its Equal Pay Act to cover all characteristics protected under the New York Human Rights Law, including age, race, creed, national origin, sexual ...

Working class people are struggling to break into the arts world, leaving the sector dominated by the middle class and London, a new report has said. Class should become a protected characteristic, ...

There is a growing consensus around extending the Equality Act (2010) to outlaw class discrimination – as well as race, gender and other forms of discrimination already covered by the Act. But might ...

The latest Indiana hate crimes proposal — one that seems to have the clearest path forward in the House — wouldn't specifically list any protected characteristics. House Bill 1093, filed Thursday by ...