After Orlando, some businesses stress LGBT inclusivity moves

Associated Press ^ | Jun 23, 2016 11:10 AM EDT | Joyce M. Rosenberg

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Some small business owners already working to make their companies more welcoming to LGBT employees say the massacre at a gay dance club in Orlando gives them an impetus to make more changes.

“I’ve committed to myself and within our executive team to redouble our efforts to create a safer, kinder, more accepting workplace,” says Frank Maylett, CEO of RizePoint, a company that makes software to help restaurant owners, hotel operators and retailers manage multiple locations.

RizePoint had already taken steps like providing health and other benefits to employees’ domestic partners and removing gender references in its handbook so that “paternity” and “maternity” leaves are now “parental” leave. And when an employee last year planned to have sex reassignment surgery, managers including the then-CEO met with the staffer and offered support. …

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If companies want to grovel to the sexual perverts, fine. (I won’t be patronizing them, though.) But making it MANDATORY is the crux of the issue.

[ilovesarah2012]

Hey - works for me. :)

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"RizePoint had already taken steps like providing health and other benefits to employees’ domestic partners and removing gender references in its handbook so that “paternity” and “maternity” leaves are now “parental” leave. And when an employee last year planned to have sex reassignment surgery, managers including the then-CEO met with the staffer and offered support. …"

It looks like the company was already "bending over" for more than a year.

So what makes this an important "news" story today?