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On November 7, 2013, Merkley's bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support by a vote of 64–32. President Barack Obama supported the bill's passage, but the House Rules Committee voted against it. From 2015 on, LGBT rights advocates moved to support the Equality Act, a bill with far more comprehensive protections than ENDA.
The "Minority Views" section of the U.S. House Committee on Education & Labor report on the bill asserts: "H.R. 800, the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act, would strip [the right to a secret ballot] from every American worker. Moreover, the bill makes changes to federal labor law's scheme of penalties and remedies that are one-sided ...
Minnesota became the first state to ban employment discrimination based on both sexual orientation and gender identity when it passed the Human Rights Act in 1993. [21] [22] Currently, 25/50 states, the District of Columbia, and at least 400 cities and counties have enacted bans on discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Where minimum rights do not exist in federal or state statutes, principles of contract law, and potentially torts, will apply. Employment contracts are subject to minimum rights in state and federal statute, and those created by collective agreements. [91] Aside from terms in oral or written agreements, terms can be incorporated by reference.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted the bill, which takes effect immediately, in response to a recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling that said a near-total abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable in ...
The Center Square reported in November that Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity projects 486,348 jobs, many in health care and construction, will be added to the state in the next decade.
The Employee Rights Act (S.1774), or ERA, is a bill re-introduced to the 115th Congress in the United States Senate on September 7, 2017, by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch [R-UT] and 14 co-sponsors. [1] The bill was referred to the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions . [ 2 ]