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The Federalist
February 28, 2018
Lambda Legal, the first legal organization dedicated to assisting gays and lesbians in court, currently has six open cases involving employment discrimination, with only one alleging anti-gay discrimination. ... Nevertheless, LGBT activists persist in their efforts to be included in anti-discrimination efforts.
Gay Star News
February 28, 2018
The US' largest LGBTQ rights organization, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) hailed the vote saying it was 'crucially important legislation'. 'Today's vote is a positive step toward making history in New Hampshire by updating its non-discrimination protections to include the entire LGBTQ community,' saidÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Radio Network
February 28, 2018
A group of five churches and a Christian radio station have filed a lawsuit challenging a new City of De Pere anti-discrimination ordinance that's set to go ... “Unlike many of its counterparts in other state, local and federal law, the De Pere ordinance does not clearly exempt religious organizations,” the suitÃÂ ...
Fox11online.com
February 28, 2018
DE PERE (WLUK) -- Tuesday evening we spoke with people on both sides of De Pere's new, anti-discrimination ordinance that protects transgender people. The ordinance ... "And we're not asking for the ordinance's removal, only that the church and religions organizations have an exemption," said Miles. City leaders toldÃÂ ...
Newsweek
February 27, 2018
Georgia's Senate has passed a bill that could enable child welfare organizations to stop same-sex parents from adopting on grounds of religious beliefs, in what rights advocates have called a “dangerous step backward.” In the latest chapter of the debate on religious freedom and freedom fromÃÂ ...
NL Times
February 27, 2018
"Discrimination has no place in our organization. If employees get this question, their answer should simply by 'no'." In addition to sending its entire staff on an anti-discrimination course, Randstad Nederland will also use 'mystery shoppers' to see how employees respond to discriminatory requests.
Fox11online.com
February 27, 2018
“Unlike many of its counterparts in other state, local and federal law, the De Pere ordinance does not clearly exempt religious organizations. Nor has the City been willing to assure religious institutions that they will not be subjected to the ordinance when it takes effect March 1, 2018. As a result, the ordinance is likely to beÃÂ ...
HR Dive
February 14, 2018
Using a reference-checking software system, especially one that meets the above criteria, provides organizations with more job-relevant feedback from their reference checking process, while at the same time helping to ensure that information they glean from this feedback is documented in a consistentÃÂ ...
News & Observer
February 2, 2018
Like many other tech companies, Amazon has a long history as a supporter of gay rights and anti-discrimination legislation and has its own gay and lesbian employee group, ... But Equality NC isn't directly affiliated with the campaign, said Ben Graumann, a spokesman for the Raleigh-based organization.
PRIZM News
February 2, 2018
More than 70 people—LGBTQ Ohioans who've faced discrimination, leaders of civil-rights organizations, parents, legal experts, and businesses and ... While about 20 percent of Ohioans live in cities with local anti-discrimination laws that cover sexual orientation and gender identity, Jochum said, “80ÃÂ ...
The Columbus Dispatch
February 1, 2018
Business representatives and LGBT activists came together with unprecedented testimony in support of an anti-discrimination bill Wednesday, saying the ... More than 70 proponents of the bill, representing advocacy organizations such as Equality Ohio and TransOhio, business organizations such as theÃÂ ...
Springfield News Sun
February 1, 2018
The ordinance was changed to add language to protect religious organizations that aren't directly affiliated with a specific church but were started based on faith, such as Young ... In February 2012, commissioners voted 3-2 against amending the city's anti-discrimination codes to include sexual orientation.
Columbia Missourian
January 31, 2018
That bill raised the bar on proving anti-discrimination claims by requiring that a protected trait (religion, gender, race, etc.) must be the motivating factor, rather than a contributing factor, of an unlawful employee termination. Among other significant shifts in language, the law placed caps on employeeÃÂ ...
Springfield News Sun
January 30, 2018
The ordinance might be changed to clarify the word religious and add language to protect religious organizations that aren't directly affiliated with a specific church but were ... In February 2012, commissioners voted 3-2 against amending the city's anti-discrimination codes to include sexual orientation.
Chambersburg Public Opinion
January 25, 2018
She added, "some issues are best handled at the state or federal level, and anti-discrimination legislation is one of them, in my opinion." .... opposite sex, or the subsequent law suits that may bleed these organizations dry of their funding should they be found in violation of any of the provisions in (the bill).".
Newsweek
January 19, 2018
The company also joined a coalition of businesses backing a federal anti-discrimination bill to protect LGBT people. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was one of the largest financial backers of the fight for marriage equality, and was given a National Equality Award from LGBT rights organization the Human RightsÃÂ ...
Kaplan Herald
December 29, 2017
Several Christian groups, including the Church State Council, a Seventh-day Adventist organization that provides legal advice for those facing religious discrimination, strongly opposed the anti-harassment/anti-discrimination proposal, arguing that it “places the free speech and religion of lawyers at theÃÂ ...
The News Journal
December 28, 2017
Earlier this year Governor Carney issued a new executive order that is a “single, uniform [anti-discrimination] policy, which will be the controlling ... Another area the Governor should pursue to help move this forward would be to identify those organizations within state government that are ”Islands ofÃÂ ...
Richmond.com
December 26, 2017
These accounts have caused businesses and organizations to prioritize the need to develop comprehensive policies regarding the prohibition on ... In doing so, companies should start with implementing a comprehensive anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policy, as well as a code of conduct.
New York Times
December 20, 2017
This article was written through collaboration between The New York Times and ProPublica, the independent, nonprofit investigative journalism organization. A few weeks ago, Verizon placed an ad on Facebook to recruit applicants for a unit focused on financial planning and analysis. The ad showed aÃÂ ...
Elite Daily
December 11, 2017
I spoke with Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD, an advocacy organization that works to advance the LGBTQ+ narrative in the media, about the ... At question in the case is whether Phillips violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA), essentially a state-level version of the federal CivilÃÂ ...
Washington Blade
December 11, 2017
Although the order list indicates the Supreme Court denied certiorari in the case, the court allows the filing of the friend-of-the-court briefs from 76 business and organizations, anti-discrimination scholars, LGBT groups including GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, as well as legal scholar David Boyle.
Mother Jones
December 4, 2017
In 2013, Mullins and Craig filed a complaint with the state government, alleging that Phillips had violated Colorado's anti-discrimination statute. ... One organization argues that far from being an oppressed group, the LBGT community is a well-funded and powerful political force, with backing from some ofÃÂ ...
Boulder Daily Camera
December 2, 2017
Many credit Munson's organization skills, honed as a Girl Scout, with saving the initiative. Munson also had experience with the "Greenbelts for Boulder" effort as a Fairview High student in 1967. She scheduled shifts of volunteers to collect signatures outside of Alfalfa's Market. "Alfalfa's was where we allÃÂ ...
Chicago Sun-Times
November 30, 2017
Our engagement with the NAACP and Tamika Mallory has led to conversations both with external organizations and our own team members that we ... its internal system for responding to discrimination complaints from its own staff, ensuring accountability for staff who violate anti-discrimination policies.
Poynter (blog)
November 30, 2017
Enter GLAAD, the watchdog organization that monitors media coverage of LGBTQ issues. The group recently sent a letter to the heads of major media organizations, including CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Washington Post and Reuters, urging the organizations to beÃÂ ...
Casper Star-Tribune Online
November 29, 2017
City leaders embraced an LGBT advocacy group's proposal for an anti-discrimination resolution Tuesday night, explaining that it could help correct the ... This is one of the reasons that Johnston and other members of PFLAG, an organization that advocates for people who are LGBT, are asking Council toÃÂ ...
The News Journal
November 28, 2017
UPDATE: The Delaware State Education Association, the state's largest educators union, has voiced its support for a proposed anti-discrimination ... I'm proud of this organization for supporting Regulation 225, which will help protect students against discrimination in our schools no matter their race,ÃÂ ...
PolitiFact
November 23, 2017
... advocacy groups and sports organizations after signing it into law in ... 142 added back HB2's bans on local anti-discrimination ordinances, ...
Southern Poverty Law Center
November 23, 2017
Organizations listed as anti-LGBT hate groups are designated with an ... speech rights are violated by Colorado's anti-discrimination ordinance.
Hampshire Review
November 23, 2017
Group opposing anti-discrimination files petition ... (AP) _ An organization opposing a West Virginia city's newly reinstated human rights ...
AdAge.com
November 22, 2017
Last year, the journalism organization raised the issue of potential ... for the advertiser to verify its ads comply with anti-discrimination laws.
pride source.com
November 22, 2017
... parade organizers, the Boy Scouts group was identified as a "private" organization and ... "For as long as we have had anti-discrimination laws we've had ... and 11 other organizations detail numerous cases in which LGBTÂ ...
The Detroit News
November 22, 2017
... by international governmental organizations like the United Nations and the ... has paradoxically come out strongly against this anti-discrimination bill, ... Given the storied history of this organization, that's a genuine tragedy.
Chicago Tribune
November 22, 2017
It graded cities on 44 criteria covering anti-discrimination policies, ... Organizations may look for "more answers (on smaller issues), but it takes ...
The Daily Meal
November 15, 2017
The women's movement, anti-discrimination laws, and corporate sexual ... organization Les Dames d'Escoffier and a co-organizer of the event, ...
KSDK
November 15, 2017
"The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and ... "The anti-discrimination act does not tell the bakery how to design its cakes.
Salon
November 14, 2017
The HRC's CEI rating grades businesses with 500 full-time employees or more on their internal anti-discrimination policies and positive ...
Human Resource Executive Online
November 14, 2017
... is when an organization wants to save money [and] eliminates higher ... Unlike other anti-discrimination laws, he says, the age law requires ...
Harvard Crimson
November 14, 2017
In response, organizations such as Act Up protested the US ... 28 states, and 3 states even have laws prohibiting local anti-discrimination laws.
YES! Magazine
November 14, 2017
NARAL also wants to expand the anti-discrimination ordinance in ... Merritt, St. Louis-based co-director for the reproductive justice organization, ...
The New Yorker
November 13, 2017
“He was supposed to talk about it . . . the anti-discrimination and anti-harassment ... “As a father of a daughter, I do not want to be a part of an organization or ...
KRWG
November 4, 2017
“Our organization seeks to stop discrimination against everyday New ... orientation under the Colorado anti-Discrimination Act and required the ...
Mason City Globe Gazette
November 4, 2017
The New York-based organization publishes research on workers issues ... and more strictly enforced anti-discrimination laws,” Andrews said.
pride source.com
November 4, 2017
"Countries that want to remove anti-discrimination language from this ... LGBTI organizations demanded their governments do the right thing ...
LGBTQ Nation
November 4, 2017
One of the signs used to campaign against marriage equality in Australia. LGBTQ organizations warned that the referendum would stir up ...
Lakeland Times
November 3, 2017
Walker signs Israeli anti-discrimination order ... The organization has filed a lawsuit in Kansas challenging a state statute requiring state ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
November 2, 2017
... change to add anti-harassment and anti-discrimination language to its ... a Seventh-day Adventist organization that provides legal advice for ...
The Diamondback
November 1, 2017
... especially within international organizations like the United Nations. ... however, we should continue to support anti-discrimination laws for all ...
UN News Centre
October 28, 2017
“There is a need for effective anti-discrimination measures covering both the ... “Non-governmental organizations, human rights defenders and ...
