Sentences with phrase «including discrimination based on sexual orientation»

I am a cosponsor of the Respect for Marriage Act that would repeal DOMA and I am dedicated to ensuring protections against any form of discrimination, including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Historically, California's higher - education law, which includes requirements against discrimination based on sexual orientation, sex, and gender identity, has had an exemption allowing a religious college to follow policies based on its religious tenets.

Smith's gay Republican supporters point to Smith's past support for other gay rights legislation, including the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, which would ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and a hate crimes prevention bill that includes protection for gays and transgender persons.

He has focused his work, including two recent amendments — one to recruit, and the other to memorialize lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members who have served honorably and with distinction in the Armed Forces — as well as to eliminate all forms of discrimination based on color, race, religion, gender, sex, creed, disability, sexual orientation or national origin.»

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

raise awareness and sensitivity to potential acts of discrimination and / or harassment directed at students that are committed by students and / or school employees on school property or at a school function; including, but not limited to, discrimination and / or harassment based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or sex; and

provided with training which addresses the social patterns of harassment, bullying and discrimination, including but not limited to those acts based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender, and sex;

Such conduct shall include, but is not limited to, threats, intimidation or abuse based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex; provided that nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to prohibit a denial of admission into, or exclusion from, a course of instruction based on a person's gender that would be permissible under Education Law sections 3201 - a or 2854 (2)(a) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. section 1681, et seq.), or to prohibit, as discrimination based on disability, actions that would be permissible under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

In compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 and applicable federal, state, and local laws, and our institutional values, The Cooper Union does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military status, marital status, partnership status, familial status or any other legally protected characteristic, in admissions, financial aid, or employment practices, or in the administration of any Cooper Union educational program or activity, including athletics.

Discrimination: Irrespective of length of service, an employee may bring a claim for discriminatory dismissal or discrimination based on any one of the nine discriminatory grounds contrary to equality legislation (i.e., gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race (including colour, nationality and ethnic or national origin) and membership of the travellDiscrimination: Irrespective of length of service, an employee may bring a claim for discriminatory dismissal or discrimination based on any one of the nine discriminatory grounds contrary to equality legislation (i.e., gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race (including colour, nationality and ethnic or national origin) and membership of the travelldiscrimination based on any one of the nine discriminatory grounds contrary to equality legislation (i.e., gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race (including colour, nationality and ethnic or national origin) and membership of the traveller community).

One of the outcomes of the civil rights movement is laws aimed at eliminating unfair practices in the workplace, including discrimination based on race, religion, gender and, more recently, sexual orientation.

Factor 4.1, «Equal treatment and absence of discrimination,» measures whether individuals are free from discrimination - based on socio - economic status, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, or gender identity - including with respect to public services, employment, court proceedings, and the justice system.

Lead trial counsel for plaintiffs in both the preliminary and final injunction hearings of Evans v. Romer, a successful suit challenging the constitutionality of a widely - publicized amendment to Colorado's constitution that would have prohibited any legislation protecting against discrimination based on sexual orientation; case received nationwide press coverage in broadcast and print media, including live coverage on Court TV, and was ultimately decided in plaintiffs» favor in the U. S. Supreme Court.

These include reproductive rights and the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of sex, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, colour, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.»

The resolution adopted by the OBA council calls on the law society «to require all legal education programs recognized for admission to the bar of the province of Ontario provide equal opportunity without discrimination» on the basis of several grounds, including sexual orientation.

Heintz filed a human rights complaint, alleging that she had effectively been terminated from employment because of her sexual orientation, contrary to s. 5 of the Human Rights Code which prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of certain proscribed grounds, including sexual orientation.

These anti-discrimination laws prohibit discrimination based on many different personal characteristics, including: race, ancestry, place of origin, ethnic origin, colour, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family status, and disability.

She handles a wide range of matters, including those involving claims of discrimination and harassment based on race, national origin, age, sex, disability, and sexual orientation; wage and hour violations; independent contractor misclassification; wrongful termination in violation of public policy; whistleblower and other retaliation claims; breach of contract; unfair competition; defamation; and misappropriation of trade secrets.

These policies should explicitly address discrimination based on all prohibited grounds under human rights legislation, including sexual orientation.

The Casebook also includes court decisions from Canada: Haig v. Canada (1992)(omission of sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Rights Act is discriminatory); Egan v. Canada (1995)(whether exclusion of same - sex relationships from the definition of common law spouse violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Section 15 prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation); Vriend v. Alberta (1998)(college laboratory instructor dismissed because of his homosexuality); Hall v. Powers (2002)(student refused permission to attend a prom at a Catholic high school with his boyfriend); Halpern et al. v. Attorney General of Canada (2003)(whether denial of marriage licenses to same - sex couples based on the common law definition of marriage was discriminatory under the Charter; a postscript indicates that the 2005 Civil Marriage Act provided for gender - neutral definition of marriage).

This would include discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, age, nationality or sexual orientation.

Yet as we all applaud the protections from discrimination, you may be shocked to learn that the current Federal Fair Housing Law does not include protection from housing discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

The court also found that the owner had violated the state fair housing law, including the state law prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation.

In addition, while the Fair Housing Act does not specifically include sexual orientation and gender identity as bases for discrimination, a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person may still claim violation of the Fair Housing Act based on certain actions of a relator or broker.

It is the position of NVAR that all consumers should be treated equally in their housing transactions, which includes prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

NAR also authorizes sanctions in response to a finding that a member has violated any Fair Housing law, including local and state laws that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.