Tag: LGBT employees
TLDEF Condemns North Carolina Law Striking Down LGBT Protections and Targeting Transgender Students for Discrimination
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) condemns a new law passed by North Carolina lawmakers and signed by Governor Pat McCrory, which will ban transgender students in schools and all transgender people in public buildings from using bathrooms and other facilities that match who they are as male and female. The law also strikes down non-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in municipalities throughout the state and bars their future passage.
What Transgender and LGBT Rights on the Job Will Look Like in 2016 ?
A new EEOC ruling gives greater protection to transgender and LGBT employees than yet afforded by Congress or the U.S. Supreme Court.
Applauds Introduction of Legislation to Address Unfair Taxation of Health Benefits
The Human Rights Campaign, the America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, yesterday lauded Representatives Jim McDermott (D-WA), Richard Hanna (R-NY) , Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Nan Hayworth (R-NY) for introducing the Tax Parity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act in the House of Representatives.