President Obama Moves To Protect LGBT Employees Of Federal Contractors
Click here for reuse options!The executive order would expand existing rules for federal contractors that forbid discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
There is currently no federal law that forbids anti-LGBT discrimination in the workplace.
The White House has long said its preferred method of stopping LGBT-based discrimination in the workplace would be the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). That bill, if signed into law, would apply to private and public employers, while the executive order is limited to federal contractors.
But it’s widely expected that the House of Representatives will not act on ENDA this year. The Senate passed the bill in 2013.
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By: Cheston Catalano
Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.
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arc99 June 16th, 2014 at 16:10
Makes perfect sense. LGBT people are taxpayers just like the rest of us. If a company profits from taxpayer dollars, that company should be required to treat everyone equally.
Can’t wait to hear how the noise machine will spin it as “socialist tyranny” that companies which profit from taxpayers cannot discriminate against taxpayers.
arc99 June 16th, 2014 at 16:10
Makes perfect sense. LGBT people are taxpayers just like the rest of us. If a company profits from taxpayer dollars, that company should be required to treat everyone equally.
Can’t wait to hear how the noise machine will spin it as “socialist tyranny” that companies which profit from taxpayers cannot discriminate against taxpayers.