Earlier this year, Colorado joined a growing list of states that have banned natural hair discrimination. Colorado’s CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act) went
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Anti-Discrimination Laws
Virginia: the Next State to Protect LGBTQ Employees from Discrimination?
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you probably know that the question of whether federal law prohibits employment discrimination against employees on the basis of their sexual orientation…
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“And Don’t Call Me Bean!”
Comes now a newly effective law in the Channel Island of Jersey – the first anti-discrimination law there and 13 years in the making. It only covers race for now,…
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“If He Comes To Work In A Tutu …” And Other Objections To Anti-Gay Bias Laws
There’s something about the prospect of the passage of laws forbidding employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation that strikes such fear in opponents that they revert to hoary…
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“Familial Status” Employment Discrimination May Be Part of Proposed New Law
The city of Helena, Montana may be next to join the “national trend” in passing laws to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from employment discrimination. Already, Bozeman and…
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Business Groups Even In “Red States” Worry About Not Having Laws Banning Sexual Orientation Employment Discrimination
The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington published an article today about the wave of laws being passed countrywide, and especially in neighboring Utah (!), which ban discrimination on the basis of…
Brutal Murder Of Gay Man Spurs Chilean President To Sign Anti-Discrimination Law
The Santiago Times has reported that after a legislative battle that lasted seven years, the President of Chile signed the country’s first antidiscrimination law. “It took the brutal death of…
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