Legal Protections for LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Workplace
Following a 2020 Supreme Court ruling, federal law protects lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ+) individuals from workplace discrimination. Before this nationwide ruling, such protections were inconsistent, with federal law only covering federal employees, while the District of Columbia and 20 states had enacted their own laws to protect both public and private employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation and, in most of those states, gender identity.
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Consider two hypothetical situations in a U.S. state that has never passed its own specific laws regarding workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.
- Situation A (2018): An employee at a private company is fired after their manager discovers they are gay.
- Situation B (2022): An employee at the same private company is fired under identical circumstances.
Based on the evolution of federal law, which statement best analyzes the legal recourse available to these two individuals?
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