Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on religion and requires that employers provide reasonable accommodations for employees' sincerely held religious beliefs, ...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a foundational anti-discrimination law that covers almost all employers in the United States. For ...

Judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit were wary of expanding a shield for religious institutions facing job discrimination lawsuits, suggesting that a fired gay teacher's bias ...

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In 1977, the Supreme Court introduced a flawed standard for Title VII, the civil rights law that governs employee and employer relations. Since then, American employees have struggled to have their ...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act became law 60 years ago, on July 2, 1964. The statute was a landmark piece of legislation that protected workers from discrimination based on race, color, religion, ...

In Tucker v. Faith Bible Chapel International, 36 F.4th 1021, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 15605 (10th Cir. June 7, 2022), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held in a 2-1 decision that it lacked ...

Sarah Parshall Perry is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. The Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which ...

Title VII prohibits discrimination based on religion and also requires that employers "reasonably accommodate an employee's religious beliefs or practices, unless doing so would cause more than a ...

“Sex-plus” discrimination claims expand Title VII’s protection to subgroups of employees who suffer discrimination based on multiple characteristics. Although these claims have typically been harder ...