Legal Employment Discrimination News

"Supreme Court Facilitates Filing Workplace Discrimination Claims"

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that workers can bring employment discrimination suits over job transfers based on sex, race, religion, or national origin without having to demonstrate "significant" harm, setting a more lenient standard for such claims. The case involved Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow, a police sergeant who claimed she was transferred because she is a woman. The unanimous decision laid out a more stringent test for lower courts to use in determining whether a discrimination claim based on altered conditions of employment can proceed to trial, with some justices expressing differing opinions on the reasoning behind the ruling.