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New Wal-Mart Policy Protects Gay Workers

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It was unclear today exactly how Wal-Mart planned to train employees, but Ms. Williams said that a computer-based training program would include discussion of sexual orientation.

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[El Gato]

Apparently this "protection" only extends to them not being harrassed in the workplace. It does not extend to granting them any special privledges. It's sound like they did this to get a noisy, and likely fairly small, group of shareholders out of their face. It's still the cowards way out to imply that gay employees enjoy some "special" protection. . The right thing to do would be to say that Gay employees at WalMart enjoy the same workplace protections as all other workers. (Meaning virtually none not required by law, and not even some of those apparently. )

[Mo1]

She said that while investors like Pride Foundation had a role in the decision, the most important factor was a letter to senior management officials about six weeks ago from several gay Wal-Mart employees, saying that unless the company changed its policy the employees would "continue to feel excluded."

I'm taking a guess that is code for .. do something or I'll sue the pants off you?