Sentences with phrase «own nondiscrimination»

T - Mobile started offering spousal benefits and insurance coverage for gay couples even when it wasn't legally required to, and it enforces a nondiscrimination policy that protects LGBTQ employees.

The process of granting loans to businesses is regulated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ensure fairness and guarantee nondiscrimination and disclosure of all aspects of the process.

The nondiscrimination rules and regulations of the Affordable Care Act make it difficult for employers to switch workers» eligibility for health benefits between exempt and non-exempt status.

Their research estimates that, along with recent nondiscrimination laws at the state level, the White House ban will prevent employers from discriminating against 14 million LGBT workers.

Curiously, in covering this effort, USA Today published a map highlighting cities and states that should be out of contention, yet added a footnote about Philadelphia and Pittsburgh which both offer nondiscrimination protections although their state does not.

The nine states lacking nondiscrimination laws and their 11 finalist metro areas are Florida (Miami), Georgia (Atlanta), Indiana (Indianapolis), North Carolina (Raleigh), Ohio (Columbus), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), Tennessee (Nashville), Texas (Austin and Dallas) and Virginia (Northern Virginia).

Many instead believe strongly in corporate engagement, by urging CEOs and senior executives to meet with elected officials, to speak out and to give financial support to civil rights groups advocating for equality and nondiscrimination under the law.

In North Carolina and Tennessee, state laws actually prohibit cities from enacting their own local nondiscrimination laws.

Other LGBT advocates see the choice in starker terms: Amazon could send a better message and do more good simply by avoiding states without nondiscrimination laws.

That has caught the attention of advocates for nondiscrimination laws protecting LGBT citizens.

Austin and Pittsburgh, both finalists for HQ2 and located in states without nondiscrimination laws, scored perfect 100s on the HRC's municipal equality index.

is pressuring Amazon to choose a state with nondiscrimination laws.

Another proposed Texas bill would overturn nondiscrimination ordinances protecting LGBT people at the local level.

As it stands, the law prevents local governments in North Carolina from passing nondiscrimination ordinances, and bans transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.

He has consistently made sure that his workplaces are welcoming to the LGBT community and installed corporate nondiscrimination policies and health and family benefits.

Eleven Amazon HQ2 finalist cities are in states lacking nondiscrimination laws.

This fear stems from a number of developments, including the loss of Costco (COST) and JetBlue (JBLU) cobranded card partnerships and an adverse court ruling that prohibits AXP's «nondiscrimination provisions» in contracts with merchants.

The United States - Chile FTA eliminates tariffs and opens markets, reduces barriers for trade in services, provides protection for intellectual property, ensures regulatory transparency, guarantees nondiscrimination in the trade of digital products, commits the Parties to maintain competition laws that prohibit anticompetitive business conduct, and requires effective labor and environmental enforcement.

This approach would permit the company to maintain its involvement across multiple lines of business and permit it to enjoy the benefits of scale while mitigating the concern that Amazon could unfairly advantage its own business or unfairly discriminate among platform users to gain leverage or market power.444 Coupling nondiscrimination with common carrier obligations — requiring platforms to ensure open and fair access to other businesses — would further limit Amazon's power to use its dominance in anticompetitive ways.

A nondiscrimination policy that prohibited Amazon from privileging its own goods and from discriminating among producers and consumers would be significant.

Given that many of the most notable anticompetitive concerns around Amazon's business structure arise from its vertical integration and the resulting conflicts of interest, applying a nondiscrimination scheme would curb the anticompetitive risk.

«The firm is strongly committed to nondiscrimination, and looks forward to addressing this former employee's claims on the merits,» spokeswoman Christy Jockle said in an email.

In terms of trying to impose some sort of a nondiscrimination remedy or neutrality standard, the main argument you hear is that it would negatively impact investment.

According the Fortune, the university has had the same nondiscrimination policy since the early 1990s, and it wasn't until a gay student alleged he was discriminated against by the Beta Upsilon Chi fraternity based on his sexual orientation that questions about the policy arose.

«We started reviewing all student organization constitutions and applications and it became somewhat evident that in some cases, the organization did not understand the nondiscrimination policy,» Fortune said.

It is reassuring that many of our current religious organizations understand that our nondiscrimination policy poses no threat to their religious freedom,» Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Richard McCarty said in a press release.

Though I'm agnostic, I'm against this «nondiscrimination policy» because it makes no sense.

«The ethics of it,» he said, «run counter to the highest Christian principles of fairness and nondiscrimination in the market place.

It's ironic — those who champion nondiscrimination, in the name of nondiscrimination, are creating rules that push out those who «discriminate» based on biblical belief statements.

On two of three contentious issues at the intersection of religious liberty and nondiscrimination concerns, Americans remain evenly divided.

Any Scouting unit that refuses to accept or abide by the new policy will either have their charter revoked by national BSA leadership or become fully exposed to legal attacks for alleged violations of nondiscrimination ordinances.

Still in draft form, the Code of Conduct commits signatories to faithful compliance with Charitable Choice; to straightforward and consistent communication about their religious identity among their volunteers, service beneficiaries, donors and government partners; to refraining from using government funding for «confessional activities»; to winsome and gentle witness; to love of neighbor; to freedom from religious coercion; to nondiscrimination toward program participants; to faithfulness to their mission; to credible and objective evaluation procedures; to avoidance of «turf wars» with other FBOs and nonprofits; and to rigorous financial accountability.

At the heart of the issue is a nondiscrimination policy that would allow any university student to join any campus organization and be allowed a shot at club leadership.

Now the rationale of Christian hospitality is displaced by coercive liberalism's rules of nondiscrimination.

OCR is already tasked with enforcing several nondiscrimination and conscience protection statutes, including the Church, Coats - Snowe, and Weldon amendments.

Rollins College, one of the schools to be mentioned in the statement, said in their own statement, «The principles of the nondiscrimination policy, which are at the heart of the educational process, are inconsistent with allowing exceptions for student organizations»...

While the 5 - 4 decision in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez was primarily aimed at public colleges and universities, some conservatives say the decision has upended university religious life, with both public and private schools reconsidering nondiscrimination rules.

Material aspects for human rights include investment, nondiscrimination, freedom of association and collective bargaining, and child labor.

Many LGBTQ advocates, as Vox explains, were upset that HB142 didn't fully repeal HB2, and prohibits local governments from passing nondiscrimination laws until December 1, 2020.

U.S. Department of Justice, Americans with Disabilities Act Title III Regulations, as amended, Part 36 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Public Accommodations and Commercial Facilities.

«Various New York cities and counties have already acknowledged the importance of equal rights for all people and passed transgender - inclusive nondiscrimination legislation,» said Speaker Carl Heastie in a statement.

It is difficult to find a segment of society that Louise didn't help shape over the course of more than thirty years in Congress, from health care to genetic nondiscrimination to historic ethics reforms.

In April, voters in Springfield, Missouri, repealed an LGBT nondiscrimination law that had originally been passed by the city council.

Cuomo's written a letter to college students, informing of them of their rights to nondiscrimination, and putting them on notice that the state will enforce its «strict laws» against hate crimes.

And he's written a letter to the state's college students, informing of them of their rights to nondiscrimination, and putting them on notice that the state will enforce its «strict laws» against hate crimes.

Sen. Stachowski's voted against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) New Yorkers at every turn, whether it's nondiscrimination protections or marriage equality.

about Local Organizations Meet With City Manager About Enforcing The City's Nondiscrimination And Equal Opportunity Policy

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Amidst the shocked reaction to the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling ---- which opens up the possibility of religious exemptions being used as corporate get - out - of - jail free cards regarding employee nondiscrimination protections ---- there was a less - noticed bit of good news on the last day of the high court's session.

GENDA, which would extend comprehensive nondiscrimination protections to transgender and other gender - nonconforming New Yorkers, won approval in the Assembly on June 10 ---- for the seventh time.

Given Cuomo's pride in his 2015 directive that led to regulations interpreting sex nondiscrimination provisions of the state Human Rights Law to protect New Yorkers based on their gender identity and expression, the administration's commitment to going the step further to get those reforms codified in law cheered transgender activists at that meeting and others briefed on what took place.