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Washington State: Gay Rights Law is Not Retroactive |

11.10.12

Washington State: Gay Rights Law is Not Retroactive |: A legal update by Kirk Rafdal, staff writer for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), expands on a ruling by the Washington Supreme Court that a state law enacted on June 7, 2006 “expanding protections to gays and lesbians does not apply retroactively to the discrimination claims of a university employee.”

The update surrounds the case of a gay woman, Debra Loeffelholz, who had started a job at the University of Washington in 2003. Her supervisor, James Lukehart, reportedly discriminated against Loeffelholz and denied her an employee evaluation, promotions, and opportunities for training.


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