"Supreme Court Rulings Impacting Employment Discrimination and Diversity Programs"

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling making it easier for workers to sue employers for discrimination if they’re forced to transfer jobs within an organization, impacting HR departments across the country. The decision lowers the bar for how much harm employees must prove to bring a discrimination case, requiring HR to apply a new level of scrutiny and forethought to employee-related decisions, carefully documenting their decision making and broadening the scope of their responsibilities. This ruling also means that HR leaders will have to work directly with more employees than ever before and extend beyond unwanted job transfers to other personnel decisions, demanding even more strategy and clarity from HR departments moving forward.