Labor/Employment
Aug. 5, 2014
Workplace law has come a long way, baby
With advances in technology, changes in the moral zeitgeist and the increasing political polarization of our country, there are many significant changes on the way for discrimination law. By Daniel H. Handman
By Daniel H. Handman
In 1964, Nicholas Katzenbach, the attorney general of United States, ordered Ollie's Barbecue, a tiny restaurant in Birmingham, Ala., to desegregate. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that order, the newly passed Civil Rights Act of 1964 was held to be constitutional and had to be accepted by the states.
Buried away in that landmark law was a then less-publicized provision prohibiting discrimination in employment. Today, employ...
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