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Article

24 Jan 2011

Author:
James Vicini, Reuters

US top court upholds anti-bias law protections

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled…that a federal law barring retaliation against a worker for complaints about on-the-job discrimination also protected the employee's relative from unlawful dismissal. The high court unanimously ruled for Eric Thompson, who was fired from his job at a stainless steel manufacturing plant in Kentucky after his fiancee, who also worked there, filed a discrimination complaint…Thompson's then-fiancee, Miriam Regalado, who is now his wife, filed a complaint with a federal government agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claiming her supervisors discriminated against her because of her sex. [refers to North American Stainless, part of Acerinox]