website that it is northern Minnesota’s largest furniture retailer, has two stores in the cities of Bemidji and Walker. The applicant in question sought employment at the Bemidji store.According to the investigation by the U.S.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Minneapolis office found that the company had rejected the applicant because he allegedly would not “mix well with the customers” at the store — which is located in a city of 15,000 surrounded by largely rural areas — according to a hiring official.Basing its conclusions on a 2020 U.S.
Supreme Court decision in which the nation’s highest court ruled that the firing of or refusal to hire LGBTQ people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity is an illegal form of.