Sex Discrimination

A large class action gender discrimination lawsuit has just been filed against a high profile law firm. The lawsuit Francine Friedman Griesing v. Greenberg Traurig, LLP, includes 215 women, was filed after the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found “reasonable cause to believe” that the law firm discriminated against its female attorneys. The EEOC…

Workers can bring cases based on sex and disability discrimination for a variety of reasons. Although in some situations the discrimination may be obvious such as firing an employee for turning down sexual advances, other times the discrimination may not be readily apparent. In a recent employment discrimination case out of Ohio, Koren v. Ohio Bell…

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has just ruled that federal employment discrimination law (Title VII) prohibits transgender discrimination. This means that employers may not take a person’s transgender status into account in making employment decisions, such a hiring, firing and promoting. This decision follows the same reasoning applied to longstanding sex and gender discrimination laws…

A woman who underwent a sex change has recently won a transgender sex discrimination case. In Glenn v. Brumby, a federal appeals court in Atlanta reviewed whether a former editor in the Georgia General Assembly’s Office of Legislative counsel had a claim for sexual discrimination after she was fired following the announcement of her intent to…