Newswise — “The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Thompson v. North American Stainless LP reaffirms the vitality of the anti-retaliation provision of Title VII and soundly rejects the encroachment into the broad protection provided for in the language of the statute.
“If employers were at liberty to fire the husband or fiancé in order to retaliate against a woman who files a charge of sex discrimination, the statute would be weakened. The prohibition of third-party retaliation claims would have seriously undermined the protection Congress intended to provide employees pursuing redress from unlawful discrimination.
“The Court's unanimous ruling sends a strong message to employers that the anti-retaliation provision of Title VII is alive and well and that the integrity of statute will be maintained.”
--Angela B. Cornell, professor of law and director of the Labor Law Clinic at Cornell University
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