Employees have both human rights (as persons) and legal rights (as employees). Some rights—such as the right to be treated equally regardless of sexual identity—have only quite recently been recognized as legal rights. For example, in 2015 the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination, and is hence illegal under the the 1964 Civil Rights Act.* And yet many would argue that freedom from such discrimination is a human right. That is, they would argue that all employees had a right not to be discriminated against all along. From an ethical point of view, that right didn’t just appear with the recent legal recognition of it—the right was there all along. This raises an interesting question: Should all human rights be entrenched in law, such that they become legal rights? Why or why not? Why might some rights be recognized as human rights and yet not turned into legal rights?