The California Civil Rights Department reached a $300,000 settlement with the University of California San Francisco over allegations that the university failed to adequately address an employee’s request for remote work accommodations related to a disability.
A transgender employee’s discrimination lawsuit against her former employer has been allowed to proceed after she was terminated shortly after disclosing her gender identity, with the judge ruling that the allegations were sufficient to survive early dismissal.
The Trump administration is pushing policies that undermine women’s economic freedom and security, enforce archaic gender roles, and restrict access to reproductive healthcare, in an effort to pressure women into marrying men and raising children.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted 2-1 to allow federal agencies to restrict transgender employees to bathrooms corresponding with their sex assigned at birth, overturning nearly a decade of workplace protections.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 14 other attorneys general have filed an amicus brief in support of a petition to reverse a Ninth Circuit ruling that strikes down a Washington state law banning employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, warning that the ruling could cause significant mental, physical and financial harm to residents.