{"id":91,"date":"2013-04-10T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T15:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonprofit.jonathan-belanger.com\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:18:49","slug":"workplace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nonprofit.jonathan-belanger.com\/?page_id=91","title":{"rendered":"Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Every day LGBT employees face discrimination in their place of employment because of their real or perceived sexual orientation and\/or gender identity. While federal law protects against employment discrimination based on race, gender, religion, national origin and disability, there are no federal laws that protect LGBT people from discrimination in the workplace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Discrimination goes beyond firing practices. It also includes\u00a0the denial of domestic partnership benefits and the imposition of additional tax burdens for those who are able to secure domestic partnership benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Many local jurisdictions\u00a0and companies in the private sector are taking action to promote workplace equality and fairness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PFLAG Workplace and Employment Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.pflag.org\/page.aspx?pid=282\">PFLAG\u2019s official policy statement on workplace fairness<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.pflag.org\/page.aspx?pid=458\">The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.pflag.org\/page.aspx?pid=444\">Private Sector Measures Towards An Inclusive Workplace<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.pflag.org\/page.aspx?pid=446\"><strong>Additional Workplace Resources<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day LGBT employees face discrimination in their place of employment because of their real or perceived sexual orientation and\/or gender identity. While federal law protects against employment discrimination based on race, gender, religion, national origin and disability, there are no federal laws that protect LGBT people from discrimination in the workplace. Discrimination goes beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":45,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonprofit.jonathan-belanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonprofit.jonathan-belanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonprofit.jonathan-belanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonprofit.jonathan-belanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonprofit.jonathan-belanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nonprofit.jonathan-belanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/nonprofit.jonathan-belanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/164"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonprofit.jonathan-belanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonprofit.jonathan-belanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}