Eileen Lavery of the Equality Commission, which supported the tribunal, said the decision highlighted the fact that discrimination on grounds of age was unlawful.
Melissa Nelson, a worker fired for being "irresistible" to her boss, spoke out Saturday about a high court decision that said her termination broke no discrimination law.
Such firings may not be fair, but they do not constitute unlawful discrimination under the Iowa Civil Rights Act, the decision read, siding with a lower court.
The legislation would make it clear that when a victim shows discrimination was a "motivating factor" behind a decision, the burden is on the employer to show it complied with the law.
Having lost at the Ninth Circuit, Wal-Mart vows to take the decision certifying a massive class action over alleged sexual discrimination to the Supreme Court.
Wal-Mart is currently appealing against a decision to grant class-action status to a gender-discrimination lawsuit being brought against it.
Thanou's lawyer, Gregory Ioannidis, told the BBC that the IOC's decision was based on "lack of legal arguments and the discrimination".
In fact, Congress's priority in both cases has been to avoid making the politically tough decision of who should and who should not be protected by discrimination statutes, which explains both the loose wording of the original laws and the reluctance of Congress to intervene with more specific legislation later.
"The (appeals) court properly found that Congress' decision to maintain Section 5 was grounded in the many instances of recent voting discrimination, " said Jon Greenbaum, chief counsel for the Lawyers' Committee, who argued in favor of the law before the federal courts.
Wal-Mart was favored by a Supreme Court decision to reject a massive class action law suit against the retail giant for sexual discrimination.
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Within a month of that decision, Congress passed the Ledbetter Act, which modified the time limit for when a charge of discrimination needs to be filed in certain cases, and the workers filed a motion to alter judgment in the case.
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