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Major companies call on U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favor of LGBT workers
By artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 8:49pm |By Daniel Wiessner @ Reuters.com, July 2
More than 200 U.S. companies, including Amazon (AMZN.O), Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O), and Bank of America (BAC.N), on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that federal civil rights law prohibits discrimination against gay and transgender workers. The companies filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that bias against LGBT people is a form of unlawful sex discrimination, and said a ruling otherwise would harm businesses and workers.
The Supreme Court in April agreed to take up two discrimination cases by gay men and one by a transgender woman who was fired from her job as a funeral director when she told her boss she planned to transition from male to female. The justices will hear oral arguments in October and likely issue a ruling by the end of next June [...]
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