Sentences with phrase «ban workplace discrimination»

In halting but clear speech, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois spoke briefly in favor of a bill that would ban workplace discrimination based on sexual or gender identity.

After openly supporting same - sex marriage and striking down the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy, the President of the United States also hopes to ban workplace discrimination based on employees» sexual orientation and gender identity.

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon is introducing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would ban workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, Bloomberg reports.

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The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which has been pending in Congress over the past 20 years, would, in its current form, ban sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination in most workplaces.

Cuomo in recent years has approved several executive orders aimed at protecting and bolstering LGBT rights, including actions that aim to prevent discrimination of transgender people in housing and the workplace as well as a ban on so - called conversion therapies.

The ECJ decided a rule banning all religious and political symbols in the workplace is not direct discrimination.

Unlike laws that ban discrimination on the basis of race, gender or religion, there is no federal law that protects the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community from discrimination in the workplace.