House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Martinez, on Wednesday morning will hold the first full House committee hearing on a bill that would bar employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
H.R. 3017, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, authored by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., would prohibit employment discrimination, preferential treatment, and retaliation on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity by employers with 15 or more employees. For now, it’s legal to discriminate in the workplace based on sexual orientation in 29 states, and in 38 states based on gender identity.
Those scheduled to speak at Wednesday’s hearing include:
U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc.
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
Stuart Ishimaru, Acting Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
William Eskridge Jr., John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School
Vandy Beth Glenn, fired from her Georgia state legislative job when she told her supervisor she was transitioning from male to female
Camille Olson, partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Craig Parshall, senior vice president and general counsel, National Religious Broadcasters
Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center
Brad Sears, executive director of the Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA School of Law
The bill’s 159 co-sponsors include the entire Bay Area delegation but for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco; the Speaker customarily refrains from cosponsoring, debating or voting on all but the most vital legislation.
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