ENDA update: Call Representative George Miller at 202-225-3725 and ask for the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor to schedule the Vote on ENDA.
As we alerted you earlier this month, a House committee vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), was originally scheduled for Wednesday, November 18, but was then postponed at the last minute.The vote on ENDA now hangs in the balance!
To ensure that ENDA moves forward, we need to you call the Committee and Representative George Miller at 202-225-3725 and ask for the Committee to schedule the Vote on ENDA before the end of this year!
If enacted ENDA would prohibit discrimination in the workplace by making it illegal to fire, refuse to hire or refuse to promote an employee based on the person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Currently, federal law provides legal protection against employment discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, age and disability, but not sexual orientation or gender identity. If enacted into law, ENDA will become the first federal law forbidding discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in all 50 states.
In addition to the critically important legal implications of ENDA and DPBO, these bills also have symbolic value that should not go unrecognized. Children who have LGBT parents should not grow up feeling that their country does not value the economic stability and success of their parents and their families. This legislation reaffirms the importance and equality of ALL Americans.
As the leading national LGBT family advocacy organization, Family Equality Council is proud to have submitted written testimony about the devastating consequences that employment discrimination has not only for the individual LGBT worker, but for the families, partners and children who depend upon them.
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