If You're Gay, Should You Say?who is more judgemental here?Two thoughts:1) Sexuality - even in the cloak of tolerance - has no place in a job interview. 2) The writer leaps to the conclusion that because the candidate "hunts, drives a truck and did not attend college" he is...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has changed its equal opportunity employment policy to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation. The amendment comes after two years of discussion between the company and shareholder activist groups, including gay rights Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has changed its equal opportunity...
Byline: SALLY ROBERTS BENTONVILLE, Ark.-Wal-Mart Stories Inc. has expanded anti-discrimination protections to its gay and lesbian employees, but still has no plans to extend health benefits to domestic partners of those employees, the company said Byline: SALLY ROBERTS BENTONVILLE, Ark.-Wal-Mart...
We're here, we're queer, and we're not going to invest in you anymore. That was one of the sentiments expressed at a recent one-day conference in Provincetown, Mass., that focused on how corporations are addressing issues that are important t ...
LONDON - European companies are exempt - at least temporarily - from having to extend the same benefits to homosexual couples as to heterosexual couples. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg last month rejected a sexual discrimination claim froLONDON - European companies are exempt -...
Judge OKs docs' HMO class action A federal judge has granted class-action status to litigation against several major health maintenance organizations that charges fraudulent denial of payments to physicians. Judge Federico Molina of the U.S. Distr Judge OKs docs' HMO class action ...
AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREER COUNSELLORS NATIONAL CAREER CONFERENCE, HOBART, 26-28 March 2008 A distinguished assembly of workplace experts and academics will meet to confront the latest issues facing employees and employers around the world. The central theme of the 2008 AACC conference is Career Landscape:...
SAN FRANCISCO -- California's highest court on Monday barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny treatment to gays and lesbians, ruling that state law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination extends to the medical profession. Justice Joyce Kennard wrote that two Christian fertility doctors...
The California Supreme Court made one thing perfectly clear this week as a matter of constitutional law: When it's a case of religious liberty vs. sexual liberty, sexual liberty wins. In the case of Benitez v. North Coast Women's Care Medical Group, the California Supreme Court asked: "Do...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new Equality Bill was presented to MPs in June, and aims to make Britain a fairer society by ensuring that everyone will have the same opportunities to succeed without discrimination, regardless of disability, race, gender, age, sexual orientation or religion. Over time, there has been...
Film: Sylvia 11.35PM BBC1 Gwyneth Paltrow stars as Sylvia Plath in this affecting biopic, which explores the poet's mental state, turbulent marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes Daniel Craig and her suicide in London in 1963. Jared Harris and Amira Casar also star. ...
HARRISBURG - Victims of hate crimes who are gay, female or disabled no longer have special protections under state law. The state Supreme Court has upheld a lower-court ruling striking down the 2002 expansion of the Ethnic Intimidation Act that covered sexual orientation, gender identity, and physical or mental disability....
WASHINGTON AFP — Four former US generals have joined a growing call to end a policy barring homosexuals from openly serving in the military, after a study showed it was out of step with the times and harming the armed forces. The retired officers from the...
EAST WINDSOR, N.J. -- NexMed, Inc. (Nasdaq: NEXM), a developer of innovative transdermal products based on its proprietary NexACT[R] drug delivery technology, today announced that Mark Westgate, Chief Financial Officer, will present an overview of the Company at the Collins Stewart 4th Annual Growth Conference at the...
Judge Randall Skanchy ruled Monday that the trial of alleged prostitution ringleader Steven Santiago Maese will go forward as scheduled this week despite objections from the defense. Defense attorney Gil Athay last week filed motions in the case that, if granted, would have...
Casual dining restaurant to donate 50 cents from every gourmet burger sold to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during opening week GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. Red Robin will open its fifth Massachusetts restaurant...
If anyone thinks that in this time of conservative disarray, Rush Limbaugh has lost his audience, he hasn't. I can vouch for that. On Tuesday, my column suggested that Americans perhaps should not celebrate this Independence Day in the usual ways, should instead observe the holiday through reflection and...
BUDAPEST AFP — Forty-five people were taken into custody and 10 others were injured in clashes between police and homophobes during a gay rights march in the Hungarian capital Saturday, reports said. About 450 people took part in the march in central Budapest when extremists began...
LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles-based Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing GLEH, developer of the nation's first nonprofit, affordable, multicultural housing development, has announced the appointment of new officers to its Board of Directors. Mark Lehman, of the Law Offices of Mark Lehman, Esq., has been appointed Chair...
DENVER -- The Gill Foundation announced today the hire of Fred Sainz as the director of communications/marketing. Fred, who is currently the director of communications and press secretary to Mayor Jerry Sanders of San Diego, will officially join the foundation on August 18. The Gill...
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