U.S. federal law does not prohibit discrimination against employees on the basis of ________.
A) race
B) religion
C) age
D) sexual orientation

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U.S. federal law, specifically Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. However, until the Supreme Court's ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County in 2020, federal law did not explicitly protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. This ruling extended protections to cover sexual orientation and gender identity, but it was not a result of a change in the statutory law itself, rather an interpretation of existing protections against sex discrimination. Prior to this ruling, there was no explicit federal statutory prohibition against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

US Federal Law Does Not Prohibit Discrimination Against Employees on the Basis