09/11/2023
EEOC complaints based on religious accommodations had already increased substantially over the last two fiscal years. In 2021, there were 2,111 religious-discrimination charges. By the end of fiscal year 2022, that number had jumped to 13,814. That number may increase yet again in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions.
07/24/2023
The Supreme Court ruled in June that a Colorado web designer could decline to develop sites celebrating same-sex weddings based on her First Amendment expressive freedom of association. Now a different employer—a Catholic school—is trying to argue it has the right to “expressive association” in the employment context, able to reject applicants or fire employees who don’t live up to its views on moral behavior.