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Top Florida employers join coalition to fight against LGBT discrimination
Many of Florida’s largest employers on Monday launched the Florida Business Coalition for a Competitive Workforce, aimed at passing a bipartisan bill that would ban anti-gay and gender-based discrimination.
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Bills to ban workplace discrimination introduced in Va. general assembly
RICHMOND, Va. — Two bills to ban discrimination in the public workforce across Virginia have been put before the state’s General Assembly for the 2014 season.
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Time for HRC to put economic justice on the gay agenda
There’s been plenty of sucking up to the business community at the Human Rights Campaign, but little focus on money matters affecting low- and moderate-income LGBT people.Why can’t the HRC, the gay division of the Democratic Party, address such concerns? Is it’s because of the robust six-figure salaries of the top HRC executives? Do such compensation amounts cut off their awareness of gays who don’t make that kind of money? Or is it because the minimum wage increase doesn’t attract the attention of celebrities who appear at HRC dinners?
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In bill to prohibit workplace bias, broad exemption holds danger
Unless the language of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act’s religious exemption strikes a better balance to reflect the true meaning of religious liberty, core American principles and millions of American working men and women have a great deal at risk. It will take grassroots pressure and pushing by equality-minded advocates and policy-makers to make that balance happen. Who’s pushing the other way? Some religious potentates who oppose women’s right to control their fertility and their pregnancies also oppose anti-bias laws. They claim religious principle allows them to discriminate freely. But no federal law, least of all one intended to stop bias on the job, should allow them to have it both ways…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook endorses LGBT workplace protections in Auburn speech
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who has never come out as gay publicly but has been named in Out magazine’s “Power 50″ list of most influential gays and lesbians for the past three years, endorsed the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act during a speech at Auburn University.
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Gay Catholic school teacher fired hours after applying for marriage license
BENSALEM, Pa. — A Catholic high school teacher in Pennsylvania said he was fired on Friday, just hours after applying for a marriage license to wed his same-sex partner.
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Transgender police officer files discrimination, harassment complaint
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A transgender police officer in Connecticut has filed a complaint with a state agency alleging her supervisors created a hostile work environment because of her gender identity.
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Report: Majority of Americans in every congressional district support ENDA
LOS ANGELES — A majority of Americans in every U.S. congressional district support laws that protect against workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, such as the proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) passed last week by the U.S. Senate, according to new research from UCLA’s Williams Institute.
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Report: LGBT workers of color among most disadvantaged in U.S. workforce
WASHINGTON — A new report released Thursday finds LGBT workers of color are among the most disadvantaged workers in America.
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Boehner still opposed to ENDA, calls workplace protections bill ‘unnecessary’
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), on Thursday reiterated his opposition to federal legislation to prohibit workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.