A win for the plaintiff could bolster lawsuits against workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.
The Supreme Court heard on Dec. 6 the case of a Missouri police sergeant who argues that a city illegally discriminated against her by giving her a lateral job transfer she didn’t want.
Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow of the St. Louis Police Department claims that she was forced out of the intelligence unit, transferred to a less prestigious job she didn’t like, and denied a requested transfer because she is a woman, leaving her in a dead-end job, although it has the same pay as her previous position.
During the oral argument in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis (court file 22-193) on Dec. 6, the court examined what protections Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides an employee who claims that she was the victim of a discriminatory transfer.
That statute makes it illegal for a private employer or a state or local government “to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion,…
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