Employment Discrimination

Emerging research examining the discrimination that young people encounter in the workplace reveals that there is a significant divide between LGBTQ youth and their cisgender and straight counterparts. The gap suggests that there is an overwhelming need for more...

Before Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers in Hawaii and the rest of the U.S. had the power to discriminate against job applicants and employees for virtually any reason. That meant, for example, that a company could reject all job applicants who...