EEOC Commissioner, Lawyers Discuss Rights of LGBT Employees

Protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers continue to emerge, but still more can be done to stop discrimination, an Equal Employment Opportunity commissioner and others said Feb. 13 during an employment law webinar sponsored by the American Bar Association.

Meanwhile, in a letter sent to the White House Feb. 14, 37 U.S. senators urged President Obama to issue an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against workers on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

During the early years of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the courts “created the myth that there was little legislative history behind the inclusion of sex” as a protected trait under the statute, EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum said during Trends in Employment Discrimination Against LGBT Individuals. But after that, protections for LGBT employees began to be recognized, she said.

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Source: BNA.com

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