Tag Archives: employment

NEW YORK CITY: 84% Of Residents Say They Wouldn’t Object To A Gay Mayor

The results of that Quinnipiac survey I took a few days ago are back and reveal that 84% of NYC residents don’t care if the next mayor happens to be gay. Voters don’t care that mayoral hopeful and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is a gay woman — and they’d rather vote for a Muslim or a Mormon than a …

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No Freedom Of Speech At Work

The firing of biotech executive Adam Smith after his Chick-Fil-A protest left many on the left (and the right, in some places) screaming that his freedom of speech had been infringed. But as I’ve noted here before, freedom of speech can only be considered to have been repressed by the actions of a government, not a civilian employer. Business Week …

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ENDA Reminder

Via Calvin at Gay Rights Maps.

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Google: Bring Your Whole Self To Work

Posted to Google’s diversity page: Legalise Love: LGBT Rights Are Human Rights Though our business and employees are located in offices around the world, our policies on non-discrimination are universal throughout Google. We are proud to be recognised as a leader in LGBT inclusion efforts—but there’s still a long way to go. At Google, we encourage people to bring their …

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REPORT: No Dent In Unemployment

Mitt Romney is live on CNN right this minute crowing about the just-released June jobs report which shows no change in the unemployment situation. The nation’s unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2% for the second consecutive month, the Labor Department said Friday. Businesses added 84,000 jobs, while government payrolls fell by 4,000. A consensus of economists had estimated that payrolls …

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Sen. Rand Paul: I Want To Completely Dismantle Labor Laws That Protect Unions

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Eurozone Unemployment

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Not Christian Enough

A Nebraska man is suing a local lighting company for not hiring him because he isn’t “Christian enough.” According to the complaint, the manager asked Wolfe “to identify every church he has attended over the past several years; where and when [he] was ‘saved’ and the circumstances that led up to it.” In the interview, Wolfe claims he was told …

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NEW YORK CITY: High-Ranking Lesbian Transit Official Accused Of Nepotism

A high-ranking MTA official has been accused of using her position to get her partner a job. The couple says the investigation is a witch-hunt because of their sexual orientation. Sherry Herrington, the $170,000 operations chief at Metro-North Railroad praised her partner’s qualifications in an email to the human resources department without revealing their relationship, according to the report by …

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Another Romney Slam on Employment

He’s got a theme and he’s sticking with it.

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New From The Obama Campaign

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Romney Campaign Slams Obama For Jobs Ad Featuring Anna Wintour

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TEXAS: ExxonMobil Shareholders Vote Down LGBT Employee Protections

Despite facing years of protests including one outside of today’s meeting, the shareholders of ExxonMobil have once again refused to grant employment protections to LGBT workers. The Dallas Voice reports: Meeting at the Meyerson Symphony Center in the Dallas Arts District, the ExxonMobil shareholders voted 80 percent to 20 percent Wednesday morning against a resolution asking the corporation to amend …

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Romney Attacks Obama On Jobs

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New From The Obama Campaign

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Who Cares About What

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HomoQuotable – Ed Koch

“I was truly shocked to read in the New York Times of April 12 that ‘President Obama disappointed and vexed gay supporters on Wednesday with his decision, conveyed to activists by a senior adviser, not to sign an executive order banning discrimination by employers with federal contracts.’ When I was elected mayor of New York City in 1977, taking office …

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COLORADO: Christian Hate Group Wins
Bid To Place Legalization Of Anti-Gay Discrimination On November Ballot

Despite the efforts of One Colorado and the JMG readers who pitched in to fund the battle, today anti-gay Christian hate group Focus On The Family won their battle to place a legalization of anti-gay discrimination on the statewide November ballot. If the ballot measure were to win, LGBT people could be denied housing, employment, access to services, anything. All …

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Editorial Of The Day

From the Washington Post: WHITE HOUSE press secretary Jay Carney spent a good chunk of his time during a briefing last week trying to explain why President Obama has declined to issue an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. Mr. Carney struggled for some eight minutes but was unable to give a satisfactory …

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Activists Slam Obama Over Rejection Of Employment Non-Discrim Order

Michelangelo Signorile reports at HuffPo: Two prominent LGBT activists slammed President Obama for refusing to sign an Executive Order “at this time” barring federal contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Tico Almeida, president of Freedom to Work, was among the LGBT activists in a White House meeting with senior advisor Valerie Jarrett earlier in the week …

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