New Sex-and-Age Bias Ruling Signals Reach of LGBT Worker Case

Older men and women can sue their employers for discrimination based on a combination of their sex and age, the Tenth Circuit said in a recent decision showing the broad reach of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on LGBT worker rights.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit became the first federal appeals court to recognize that workers can bring “sex-plus-age” claims under federal civil rights law. It pointed to the high court’s discussion of the legal threshold for showing bias from Bostock v. Clayton County to support that conclusion.

In addition, the Tenth Circuit lowered the ...