A Fresh Look at Title VII: Sexual Orientation Discrimination as Sex Discrimination

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Illinois Public Employee Relations Report

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2018

Abstract

Since 2006, the Illinois Human Rights Act has prohibited discrimination in employment because of an employee’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Until 2017, employees discriminated against because of their sexual orientation had no federal cause of action, however. In a landmark decision, Hively v. Ivy Tech, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit became the first appellate court to hold that federal law’s prohibition of sex discrimination in the workplace also proscribed sexual orientation discrimination. The Hively decision is a substantial departure from decades’ worth of Seventh Circuit precedent and created a split between the circuits. This Article examines the Seventh Circuit’s interpretation of Title VII and how it may auger the future of sexual orientation discrimination claims under federal law.

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Anthony Michael Kreis, A Fresh Look at Title VII: Sexual Orientation Discrimination as Sex Discrimination, 35 Ill. Pub. Emp. Rel. Rep. 2 (2018).

Volume

35

Issue

1

First Page

2

Last Page

23

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