Employment Law Checklist Project: No Discrimination for Sexual Orientation, Unless You’re a Religious Institution
One of the quirks of discrimination law in Connecticut concerns sexual orientation. Back in 1991, the General Assembly passed a wide-ranging bill that added sexual orientation as one of the protected classes that employers could not base decisions on. Sort of. Rather than add sexual orientation to the key employment law statute that bars discrimination in employment, it created it’s own separate law. While there may have been reasons for such a distinction nearly 30 years ago, it still a bit strange that we still do it this way. Notably, civil unions are still covered here even though same-sex marriages are now legal. So on to the next law in our Employment Law Checklist Project (#emplawchecklist). You can find this one at Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 46a-81c (and related statutes.) It states, in its relevant part: It shall be a discriminatory practice in violation of this section: (1) For an employer, by himself or his agent, except in the case of a bona fide occ...