A Nightmare for Employers
Have you read the Virginia Human Rights Act? In 2020 it expanded safeguards to include unlawful discrimination in employment because of sexual orientation and gender identity in addition to other characteristics. HB2155 expands upon illegal discriminatory practices to include workplace harassment. It includes physical, verbal, pictorial, auditory or visual, whether in person or by transmittal and includes “any conduct that is humiliating or degrading and whether the conduct reflects stereotypes about individuals in the protected class”. A single incident [...]
