LGBTQ+ employees traveling abroad for work feel less safe. What should companies do?
Despite the safety concerns, only 13 percent of workplaces provide LGBTQ+ specific pre-travel information for trips abroad.
September 17, 2025
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Most Americans Actually Favor LGBTQ Workplace Protections
A Marquette Law School survey finds the bulk of Americans are on the side of equality.
October 24, 2019
Scottsdale Passes Workplace Protections for LGBT City Workers
The Scottsdale, Ariz., city council voted 4-3 Tuesday to include workplace protections for LGBT city employees.
December 6, 2007
Louisiana Republicans Vote Against LGBTQ+ Workplace Protections
They claimed that protecting the LGBTQ+ community from discrimination would open business up to lawsuits.
May 4, 2023
Sessions: DOJ Will Not Protect Trans People From Workplace Bias
The anti-LGBT attorney general released a memo Thursday that made clear the Justice Department does not believe trans people are protected under federal law.
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October 5, 2017
EEOC Rules on LGB Workplace Protections
Although the ruling specifically addressed LGB employees, the ACLU says it applies to transgender workers too.
July 16, 2015
BREAKING: Pentagon Extends Protections to LGB Troops
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced the adoption of a policy revision that adds sexual orientation to its Military Equal Opportunity Policy.
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June 1, 2015
Op-ed: ENDA, Families, and the Inequitable Economies
LGBT-led households should not, in this modern era, be without full and comprehensive antidiscrimination protections in the American workplace.
November 15, 2013
Vast Majority of Americans — and 56% of Republicans — Support ENDA
A new poll from Republican polling agency TargetPoint reveals that a supermajority of Americans support workplace protections for LGBT employees.
September 30, 2013
BREAKING: Obama Announces New Exec. Order
At the White House Pride Month Celebration, Obama announced that he will extend workplace protections to transgender federal employees.
June 30, 2014
WATCH: Catholic League: Religious People Feel 'Besieged' by LGBT Progress
The president of the Catholic League says people of faith feel besieged by advances in LGBT rights but comes out in support of workplace nondiscrimination protection.
February 27, 2014
What Is Steve Bullock's Record On LGBTQ Rights?
The Montana governor supports workplace protections and marriage equality, but he once defended the state's right to deny spousal benefits for gay couples.
May 14, 2019
Poll: Majority of Americans Support Trans-Inclusive ENDA
Though most Americans support transgender protections in the workplace, House Speaker John Boehner has not shown any initiative to get a full vote for the bill.
December 14, 2013
Tammy Baldwin Reacts With Rally Cry to Obama Executive Order Decision
The Wisconsin representative and candidate for Senate said more work must be done by activists and politicians if LGBT employees are going to get workplace protections.
April 16, 2012
What Does Tim Cook Think About Firing LGBT Workers?
Long before he came out publicly as gay, the Apple CEO had been an outspoken supporter of workplace protections for LGBT people at the state and federal levels.
October 30, 2014
Report: LGBT Employees Still Face Widespread Bias
Meanwhile, ExxonMobil's refusal to enact nondiscrimination protections demonstrates the need for a presidential order banning anti-LGBT discrimination by federal contractors, say the authors of a new report on workplace bias.
May 28, 2014
Cindy McCain Signs Petition Supporting ENDA
The wife of Senator John McCain has given her full support in passing legislation which would protect LGBT people from discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
October 27, 2013
HRC Supports Job Discrimination Measure in Spite of Misgivings
The Human Rights Campaign changed course Tuesday to support a job discrimination bill even though it does not include transgender workers. HRC's decision to back the measure to prohibit workplace bias against gays, lesbians and bisexuals provides a boost to bill supporters as a House vote nears. A vote on H.R. 3685 is scheduled for Wednesday. The group had been pushing for transgender worker protections. But the organization's president, Joe Solmonese, said passage of the bill -- the first federal workplace protection for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals -- could help pave the way for legislation that covers transgender workers.
November 8, 2007