New ruling extends Family Medical Leave to LGBT Families
Under a new ruling by the U.S. Department of Labor,workers will be able to take family medical leave to care for their same-sex partners’ sick or newborn children.
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Target CEO Apologizes for Supporting Anti-Gay Candidate
08/2010
By Gail Zoppo - Aug 9, 2010
President Barack Obama signed a memorandum this week requiring government agencies "to extend to the same-sex domestic partners of Federal employees a number of meaningful benefits, from family-assistance services to hardship transfers to relocation expenses," he said in a White House statement, coinciding with the designation of LGBT Pride Month.
"For far too long, many of our government's hard-working, dedicated LGBT employees have been denied equal access to the basic rights and benefits their colleagues enjoy," he wrote in the memo. "This kind of systemic inequality undermines the health, well-being and security not just of our federal workforce but also of their families and communities."
All of The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® have same-sex domestic-partner benefits, a requirement to be on the list, while 59 percent of Fortune 500 companies provide domestic-partner benefits to employees, reports Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
After increased public criticism, boycott threats and opposition from immigration and gay-rights groups, Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel issued a public apology late last week for having made a $150,000 political donation to MN Forward, a pro-business group that backs anti-gay-rights and immigration-rights gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer.
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Federal Judge Upholds Dismissal of Counseling Student
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Eastern Michigan University by a student who was kicked out of its graduate program in school counseling last year for refusing, on religious grounds, to affirm homosexual behavior in serving clients.
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U.S. Supreme Court Upholds University Non-Discrimination Policy in NCLR Case
06/2010
President Barack Obama signed a memorandum this week requiring government agencies "to extend to the same-sex domestic partners of Federal employees a number of meaningful benefits, from family-assistance services to hardship transfers to relocation expenses," he said in a White House statement, coinciding with the designation of LGBT Pride Month.
"For far too long, many of our government's hard-working, dedicated LGBT employees have been denied equal access to the basic rights and benefits their colleagues enjoy," he wrote in the memo. "This kind of systemic inequality undermines the health, well-being and security not just of our federal workforce but also of their families and communities."
All of The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® have same-sex domestic-partner benefits, a requirement to be on the list, while 59 percent of Fortune 500 companies provide domestic-partner benefits to employees, reports Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
Today, in a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the United States Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the University of California Hastings College of the Law’s policy of requiring all funded student groups to be open to all students.
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New Passport Policy on Gender Change
06/2010
President Barack Obama signed a memorandum this week requiring government agencies "to extend to the same-sex domestic partners of Federal employees a number of meaningful benefits, from family-assistance services to hardship transfers to relocation expenses," he said in a White House statement, coinciding with the designation of LGBT Pride Month.
"For far too long, many of our government's hard-working, dedicated LGBT employees have been denied equal access to the basic rights and benefits their colleagues enjoy," he wrote in the memo. "This kind of systemic inequality undermines the health, well-being and security not just of our federal workforce but also of their families and communities."
All of The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® have same-sex domestic-partner benefits, a requirement to be on the list, while 59 percent of Fortune 500 companies provide domestic-partner benefits to employees, reports Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
The U.S. Department of State is pleased to use the occasion of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month to announce its new policy guidelines regarding gender change in passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad.
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Obama Extends Benefits
06/2010
President Barack Obama signed a memorandum this week requiring government agencies "to extend to the same-sex domestic partners of Federal employees a number of meaningful benefits, from family-assistance services to hardship transfers to relocation expenses," he said in a White House statement, coinciding with the designation of LGBT Pride Month.
"For far too long, many of our government's hard-working, dedicated LGBT employees have been denied equal access to the basic rights and benefits their colleagues enjoy," he wrote in the memo. "This kind of systemic inequality undermines the health, well-being and security not just of our federal workforce but also of their families and communities."
All of The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® have same-sex domestic-partner benefits, a requirement to be on the list, while 59 percent of Fortune 500 companies provide domestic-partner benefits to employees, reports Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
President Barack Obama signed a memorandum this week requiring government agencies "to extend to the same-sex domestic partners of Federal employees a number of meaningful benefits, from family-assistance services to hardship transfers to relocation expenses," he said in a White House statement, coinciding with the designation of LGBT Pride Month.
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