A technology company has agreed to pay out $15 million to wrap up a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into claims that its COVID-19 vaccine policy discriminated against religious workers and those with disabilities, the agency announced Tuesday.
Several Christian organizations' fights for exemptions to workplace antidiscrimination laws have converged before the Fourth Circuit, giving the court an opportunity to establish a definitive position on the complicated legal tension between the rights of religious employers and LGBTQ+ workers.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to again weigh what makes workers engaged in interstate transportation and therefore exempt from federal arbitration requirements, with two attorneys returning to the high court after they previously argued a separate case involving the issue. Here, Law360 takes a look at the two.