{"id":2136,"date":"2025-05-28T15:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:08:22","slug":"federal-court-vacates-eeoc-harassment-guidance-on-lgbtq-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/28\/federal-court-vacates-eeoc-harassment-guidance-on-lgbtq-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Vacates EEOC Harassment Guidance on LGBTQ Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Court-House.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2137\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Court-House.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Court-House-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Court-House-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On May 15, 2025, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated portions of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)\u2019s Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace relating to LGBTQ employees; the remainder of the guidance remains in effect. The court\u2019s ruling applies on a nationwide basis. In response to the decision, EEOC has on its website indicated those portions of the guidance that the court struck down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>EEOC:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/laws\/guidance\/enforcement-guidance-harassment-workplace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Littler:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/news-analysis\/asap\/federal-court-vacates-eeoc-harassment-guidance-regarding-lgbtq-individuals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal Court Vacates EEOC Harassment Guidance Regarding LGBTQ Individuals<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 15, 2025, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated portions of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)\u2019s Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace relating to LGBTQ employees; the remainder of the guidance remains in effect. The court\u2019s ruling applies on a nationwide basis. In response to the decision, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":2137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[93,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-eeoc","tag-harassment-guidance","tag-lgbtq","tag-vacated"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}