National LGBTQ Task Force message to Congress: Honor our nation’s workers with action

WASHINGTON, D.C.  — This Labor Day weekend, the National LGBTQ Task Force is calling on Congress to take more actions that will help our nation’s workers. “Congress must do more to provide workers with the tools they need to provide economic security for them and their families. We need a living wage, not a minimum…

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Bill to protect workers with disabilities from discrimination passes Assembly Labor Committee

SACRAMENTO –  A bill by California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) to protect disabled workers from on the job discrimination was approved on a unanimous, bipartisan vote by the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment Wednesday. AB 488 would eliminate an exemption for employees of sheltered workshops and rehabilitation centers with special minimum wage licenses…

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Important update on LGBT workplace equality

In an important step for LGBT workplace equality, Valerie Bowman Jarrett, senior advisor to the president and assistant to the president for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama administration Tweeted this morning: “Executive action to ban fed contractors from discriminating against #LGBT workers is good for America & for business #WorkplaceEquality“

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HRC study shows majority of LGBT workers closeted on the job

WASHINGTON – A newly released study by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBT civil right organization, The Cost of the Closet and the Rewards of Inclusion, identifies that most LGBT employees (53 percent) nationwide are closeted on the job.  The report, released today, comes on the heels of a report by…

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