Category: Legislation

Senate Votes to Protect LGBT Workers from Discrimination

Yesterday, the United States Senate voted (64-32) to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (“ENDA”). Although ten republican senators voted in favor of the legislation, there is little hope that it will pass the republican-controlled House of Representatives given Speaker John Boehner’s lack of support. Still, this is a move in the right direction for equal […]

Employment Legislation of the Future

By now, we’ve all heard (at least 287 times) that the first bill President Obama signed into law in 2009 was the Lily Ledbetter Act. The Lily Ledbetter Act expanded the remedy for pay discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to allow a new 180-statute of limitations to begin running with each unequal […]