Tag Archives: employment

It’s an Obama conspiracy! Via The Hill: Hurricane Sandy has cast a cloud of uncertainty over the final jobs report before next week’s presidential election, with Labor Department officials scrambling to determine if the data can be finalized before Friday’s scheduled release. Officials at the Labor Department said Monday they have not yet decided whether to delay Friday’s employment report …

God’s Gentle People are working to make it legal again to discriminate against LGBT people in Omaha, which only narrowly approved its workplace protection ordinance in March of this year. Some churches involved in the effort put the call to sign the petition more directly than others; approaches range from reminders to sign petitions after Sunday services to one pastor’s …

The Washington Post has published an expose of Eugene Delgaudio in which a former worker in his Virginia office alleges that she was ordered to work on his anti-gay campaigns during county time.  Such work is against the law and the FBI is investigating. She worked from a spreadsheet that listed more than a thousand names and the political campaigns …

(Via Andrew Sullivan.)

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 …

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 …

Via Calvin at Gay Rights Maps.

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 …

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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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 …

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 …

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

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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