Catholic school guidance counselor supervisor is a "minister," court says. And therefore she can't sue the Archdiocese of Indianapolis for refusing to renew her contract after she entered into a same-sex union. About a year ago, all of the judges of the same court (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit) held that the ministerial exception also applied to a lawsuit where a gay music director alleged that his pastor teased him about his sexual orientation and medical condition, creating an unlawfully hostile work environment.
Usefulness of EEO-1 pay data? Depends on whom you ask. A panel of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was commissioned in 2020 to conduct a study on whether the collection of pay data (also known as "Category 2") by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was worthwhile and to suggest improvements. The approximately 300-page study, released yesterday, can be ordered in book form or downloaded free here. According to a press release issued yesterday by the EEOC, the study's findings generally supported pay data collection. The study found that the EEOC's collection of compensation data was helpful and that the information was not readily available through other sources. The study also found that the data collection should be expanded in the future (to include data based on age and LGBT status, among others).
On the other hand, EEOC Commissioners Keith Sonderling and Janet Dhillon (who was EEOC chair during the...
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