Ruling: Discrimination Law Applies Individually Within Protected Classes

Workforce Management
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ‘would have little force if an employer could defeat a claim of discrimination by treating a single member of the protected class in accordance with the law,’ said the unanimous ruling.

August 15, 2011
Ruling: Discrimination Law Applies Individually Within Protected Classes
Discrimination against one member of a minority group violates federal discrimination law no matter how well another member of the same minority may have been treated, says a federal appellate court decision, in overturning a lower court ruling.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “would have little force if an employer could defeat a claim of discrimination by treating a single member of the protected class in accordance with the law,” said the unanimous ruling of a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.

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