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Title: From Stu to Sue: Transgender Issues at Work
Post by: Natasha on October 20, 2008, 05:23:33 PM
Post by: Natasha on October 20, 2008, 05:23:33 PM
From Stu to Sue: Transgender Issues at Work
http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2008/10/20/from-stu-to-sue-transgender-issues-at-work/ (http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2008/10/20/from-stu-to-sue-transgender-issues-at-work/)
10/20/2008
Do you have a policy related to employees who've had sex changes? If
not, you should consider it, says John Putzier.
"Employers are increasingly adopting nondiscrimination policies pertaining to what are now being called GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) workers, who generally have had no legal protection from being fired if they express a nontraditional gender identity on the job," says Putzier, the author of the bestselling Weirdos in the Workplace: The New Normal–Thriving in the Age of the Individual (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books).
http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2008/10/20/from-stu-to-sue-transgender-issues-at-work/ (http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2008/10/20/from-stu-to-sue-transgender-issues-at-work/)
10/20/2008
Do you have a policy related to employees who've had sex changes? If
not, you should consider it, says John Putzier.
"Employers are increasingly adopting nondiscrimination policies pertaining to what are now being called GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) workers, who generally have had no legal protection from being fired if they express a nontraditional gender identity on the job," says Putzier, the author of the bestselling Weirdos in the Workplace: The New Normal–Thriving in the Age of the Individual (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books).