All Posts Tagged With: "employment discrimination"

U.S. Job Site Bans Bias Over Gender Identity

By BRIAN KNOWLTON – The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has inserted language into the federal jobs Web site explicitly banning employment discrimination based on gender identity. The protection is expected to apply to the small transgender population — people who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates [...]

6Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Fla. MacDonald’s Manager Tells Transgender Job Applicant “We Don’t Hire Faggots”

By Jodi Jacobson – rhrealitycheck.org The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) has filed an employment discrimination complaint with the Florida Commission on Human Relations against McDonald’s for discriminating against a transgender person who applied for a job. TLDEF reports that: On July 10, 2009, Zikerria Bellamy applied online for a position as a [...]

7Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued