Like "actual" guidelines?
Posted on 04/30/2024 6:40:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
EEOC's landmark new regulatory guidance elevates gender identity as a protected class under discrimination laws like race, sex and religion.
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In landmark guidance, the federal commission created to fight racial and sexual discrimination declared Monday that employers that fail to use a worker's preferred pronoun or refuse them the chance to use the restroom of their choice will be engaging in prohibited harassment.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published the new harassment guidelines Monday after voting along partisan lines on Friday to approve them, even in the face of opposition from nearly two dozen red states. Three Democratic appointees approved the rules while two Republicans opposed them.
The new document elevates gender identity as a protected class under discrimination laws like race, sex and religion.
Prohibited harassment includes "repeated and intentional use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with the individual’s known gender identity (misgendering) or the denial of access to a bathroom or other sex-segregated facility consistent with the individual’s gender identity,” the new regulatory document declared.
You can read the document here.
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2024-04/Enforcement%20Guidance%20on%20Harassment%20in%20t...qual%20Employment%20Opportunity%20Commission.pdf
Job Creators Network, one of the nation's leading small business groups, decried the new guidance.
"The Biden administration's new guidance on transgender employees is yet another example of executive overreach by unaccountable bureaucrats," Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz said. "The guidance is a solution in search of a problem, as the overwhelming majority of employers already provide their employees with a respectful working environment, no matter what their backgrounds.
"While the Biden administration is focused on using the correct pronouns, small businesses are suffering under the weight of resurgent inflation, high energy costs, and a credit crunch due to Democrats' bad policies. Rules about how to treat transgender employees amount to another headache for employers at the worst possible time," he added.
The guidance offered a hypothetical example of the sort of conduct that will be prohibited in workplaces going forward.
"Chloe, a purchase order coordinator at a retail store warehouse, is approached by her supervisor, Alton, who asks whether she was 'born a man' because he had heard a rumor that 'there was a transvestite in the department.' Chloe disclosed to Alton that she is transgender and asked him to keep this information confidential," the regulatory document states. "After this conversation, Alton instructed Chloe to wear pants to work because a dress would be 'inappropriate,' despite other purchase order coordinators being permitted to wear dresses and skirts.
"Alton also asks inappropriate questions about Chloe’s anatomy and sexual relationships. Further, whenever Alton is frustrated with Chloe, he misgenders her by using, with emphasis, “he/him” pronouns, sometimes in front of Chloe’s coworkers. Based on these facts, Alton’s harassing conduct toward Chloe is based on her gender identity," the document states.
EEOC Chairwoman Charlotte A. Burrows argued the changes were necessitated by the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton decision in 2020 that found that a company would be in violation of Title VII anti-discrimination laws if it fired a worker “simply for being … transgender.”
But 20 Republican state attorneys general told the EEOC last November that the agency's efforts to impose restrictions on pronouns and bathrooms were not authorized by the ruling or by any action of Congress. “Bostock gives no license to these and other of EEOC’s novel proposals," the attorneys generals wrote.
You can read that letter here.
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2024-04/AGsBostockLetter.pdf
for gawdsakes just don’t begin a sentence with them.
Them thar people shouldn’t be hired in the first place.
Forcing someone to use preferred pronouns is a violation of the first amendment.
F-U!!! The government laws are illegal-—why are we trying to bypass or work within the limits of an illegal edict?
“The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.”
Can’t wait until this BS is finally put to rest in the courts.
Get fired...
I wouldn’t want to work at s place at is a notch below a mental institution anyhow.
Get fired...
I wouldn’t want to work at s place that is a notch below a mental institution anyhow.
All a part of turning us into mindless communist sheep. Think the way we tell you to think. Eat the bugs.
Like "actual" guidelines?
Can’t wait until this BS is finally put to rest in the courts.
A simple court ruling will not put an end to this. The left will ignore it.
If you see one say NOTHING
I’m now federally mandated to accept and kowtow to someone else’s mental illness? What are they going to do if I don’t? Arrest me and take me to jail?
(while in jail)
Criminal: “What are you in here for, man?”
Me: “Not using the right pronouns.”
Guidelines today.
Ropes tomorrow..................
Haven’t we had court cases that protected our right to refer to a man as a man regardless of his mental illness, attire, etc.?
I have no obligation to implement a new set of invented definitions to accommodate the mentally confused.
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EEOC Chairwoman Charlotte A. Burrows argued the changes were necessitated by the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton decision in 2020 that found that a company would be in violation of Title VII anti-discrimination laws if it fired a worker “simply for being … transgender.”
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Simple ‘fix’: Don’t hire the mentally ill
Our Country can't survive the 10 or so years it will take for this to wind its way through the courts. assuming we still have an Originalist leaning majority is SCOTUS by then.
Government failed at Vax Mandates now pushing Word Mandates?
I eagerly await when “Eff the feds” becomes a national motto. And thanks to the left, that time is rapidly approaching.
In my naive youth, I actually thought that the gubmit actually had intelligent folks contained within. Silly me.
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