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Over 90 percent of big companies bar LGBT discrimination

Started by LearnedHand, December 10, 2013, 10:32:53 PM

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December 10, 2013, 10:32:53 PM
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/9/over-90-percent-ofbigcompaniesbanlgbtdiscrimination.html
Author: Marissa Taylor Source: Al-Jazeera America

Corporate America has advanced more quickly in promoting rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees than the government has legislated support for them and is increasingly creating policies to prohibit workplace discrimination on the basis of sexuality and gender identity, according to a report released Monday by the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocacy group.

Sixty-one percent of those companies protect their employees from discrimination based on gender identity, which the report calls "an historic high" (PDF).
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