Here in Greenbelt, we are honored to be home to the U.S. District Court; one of two federal trial courts in Maryland. The courthouse is where documents were recently filed on behalf of a former employee of an area self-storage company. The woman says the company...
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Supreme Court to review Maryland pregnancy accommodations case
A few days ago, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will review a Maryland case. The court will be looking at Young v. UPS to determine the reach of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and to what degree employers must accommodate pregnant employees with light...
Washington D.C. police chief at center of employment litigation
About a year ago, the U.S. Court of the Appeals reversed a previous court’s decision that had essentially spared D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier a trial revolving around charges that she discriminated against a female African-American commander in the department. Now...
U.S. District Court allows pursuit of Maryland transgender claim
According to a Maryland county, it rejected an application by a former U.S. Capitol Police officer to serve in its volunteer mounted patrol because she lives too far away and is overqualified. Besides, Howard County argued, they don’t allow retired cops in the...
Maryland woman’s workplace discrimination appeal rejected
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed that a Maryland woman had been subjected to an offensive racial slur at an Ocean City hotel where she worked. But the court nevertheless rejected her argument, noting that though the term directed at her...
Maryland enacts transgender rights legislation
Step by step, transgender people are gaining legal protections in the U.S. The latest step forward was taken right here in Maryland when Gov. Martin O’Malley last week signed legislation extending protections for transgender people against discrimination in the...
Report: law needed to ban a form of workplace discrimination
It’s time for the federal government to do more than talk the talk. It’s time for Washington to walk the walk and pass a law prohibiting workplace discrimination against federal workers based on sexual orientation, the independent Merit Systems Protection Board says...
Vice President Biden discusses LGBT work discrimination reform
Over the past several months, President Obama has been widely criticized for failing to protect the LGBT community from a certain kind of discrimination. It is within the president’s authority to draft an executive order insisting that LGBT workers must be protected...
Executive order advances pay equality
An executive order signed by the president this week is seen as a big step in the direction of pay equality for women and minorities. The order puts new requirements on government contractors to disclose pay data with race and gender denoted and to prohibit...
Maryland candidate proposes employment law changes
A candidate for governor of Maryland has introduced a new labor law proposal to her political platform that would aim at narrowing or eliminating the gap between men and women’s pay. At the moment on a national level women make 77 cents for every dollar that a man...