Most states have anti-discrimination laws that don't protect LGBT employees, for years they have trying to get a federal law passed to prevent people from being fired just for being who they are. Many of the plaintiffs who fought to legalize gay marriage refused to have their photos taken for fear of being fired soon after, especially in Southern states. Tennesse/Arkansas preferred to kill ALL anti-discrimination laws rather than include LGBT in them A decision yesterday may be the next victory for LGBT in the US.




Chances are this will end up before the Supreme Court and if they uphold it then there may no longer be a need to get a federal employment anti-discrimination law passed through Congress.

Not two states banning employment non-discrimination laws

Texas doesn't have the law.

They got so pressed their governors freaked out It's like in Texas and Oklahoma, they wanted to kill all marriage licenses so they wouldn't have to marry gay couples

They banned anti-discrimination laws for gender, race, religion, etc?

As far as I know only AR/TN screwed every minority group over so they wouldn't be accused of leaving someone out.

Omg mess

How would you enforce it? I mean if they are stupid and just come out and say I won't hire you because you are x,y or z that's one thing but what if they are smart enough to cover themselves?

Unless they're stupid, they would never say something like "I'm firing you because you're x,y, or z". Most people just fire you for messing up, so that they can back their reason for firing you. I think with those anti-discrimination laws being banned it just means that you can't sue your boss/be protected if they do fire you. Unfortunately, companies get around the discrimination laws we have in place all the time.

The case that led to this dealt with current employment, not hiring. I'm not sure about hiring, I'll ask the editor since he broke the story.

Mess at these homophobic states being like "well if we can't get our way, NO ONE can!"

It's all downhill from here for conservatives because you can't stop progress. It makes sense to discriminate people on such personal factors.

That's what I saying, I know for a fact it happens and I can give you an example. Ford back in 2009 was looking to cut a lot of people, a lot of old employees to be honest that were going to be retiring in a few years.

Normally they would offer a buyout say if you had 28 years they would give you the 28+2 and you walk with full benefits but not this time. Back in around 2008 they offered the 28+2 package and a lot of people took it but a lot of people didn't thinking they would never be let go with 1 year left to be 100% vested in their pension.

They hired a outside company to do the firing. They went over the employees and made sure they axed enough people, like new employees, middle of the pack employees and then the people with 28-29 years were hammered. One of my old managers was one of them she now works part time for me. She kind of got double screwed because when Ford bought 33% of Mazda she was moved over to Ford and they didn't give her the 3 years of Mazda and started her out at 0 at Ford. She would have been at 30+ if they had applied the 3 years at Mazda.

Then Ford started to hire back the middle tier people as special contractors to retain their knowledge and some of the old people as well agreed to come back but 2009 was a bloodbath for Ford employees and contractors. Ford slashed hourly rates for contractors forcing Compuware to pull every one out, which collapsed Compuware's consulting arm, several other business folded or sold/merged to stay alive. Compuware just fired everyone in IT consulting if they didn't find a position in HQ.

So in short these laws are useless.

In short, yes!

Also what happened to your old manager is a mess. I know that's stuff that happens a lot though when companies are trying to get rid of people.

What's next? You're not allowed to kill someone just cuz they're gay? #StopThisNow

That would not be fair to the rest of us out here getting randomly killed.