Defense groups move to recover demands for transgender discrimination discarded by the EEOC

Defense groups have tried to intervene in at least two demands filed by the US Employment Opportunities Equal Commission. UU. In the name of transgender workers who allege labor discrimination after the EEOC moved to dismiss cases, according to judicial documents.

The two cases are EEOC v. Boxwood Hotels, LLC In the United States District Court for the West District of New York and EEOC v. BRIK Enterprises, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

In the old procedure, a former transgender employee of a Holiday Inn Express in Jamestown, New York, said they were in repetition and intentionally hard For a manager on his first day of work and shot the next day after complaining before management. A presentation of the February 20 court asked the Court to admit a lawyer from the Gender Equality Law Center to discuss or prove the case in its entirety or partly for the plaintiff.

The last case implies accusations of an employee for a franchise of the Culver’s restaurant chain that a manager repeatedly harassed the plaintiff and that the employer failed to take corrective measures to stop harassment. After the EEOC motion to dismiss the lawsuit he filed on behalf of the employee and other plaintiffs, two plaintiffs moved to intervene under the representation of lawyers of the Michigan Fund of the American civil liberty union, according to a presentation of February 27.

In a press release published on the same day as the presentation in BRIK EnterprisesSyeda Davidson, lawyer for senior personnel in Michigan ACLU, said the organization had “There is no choice but to intervene and try to help“After the EEOC decision to end the litigation.

“The disposition of this administration to abandon its legal obligations is the continuation of the attack of the attacks on the transgender people who are happening in our state and throughout the country,” said Davidson. “It is deeply harmful and must stop.”

During the last month, EEOC moved to say goodbye Boj hotels and BRIK Enterprises In addition to several other demands that allege discrimination against transgender workers as part of a broader application of application Following the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

Before presentations, The interim president of the EEOC, Andrea Lucas, said In a statement that the commission, in line with Trump Executive Order On the “extremism of gender ideology”, prioritize the defense of “biological and binary reality of sex and related rights” in the context of the fulfillment of the EEOC, the research and legal work.

In each of the motions to discard previously seen by HR Dive, EEOC said that his continuous litigation of the cases “can be inconsistent” both with Trump’s executive order and with the orientation of the Office of Personnel Management.

Despite the EEOC policy changes implemented under Trump, employers must still take into account that The discrimination of gender identity is illegal according to title VII Of the Civil Rights Law of 1964, as well as under many state and local laws, Tripp Scott lawyers wrote in an opinion article on February 25 for HR Dive.