General Motors has joined hundreds of other major corporations in an anti-discrimination legal brief.
The brief seeks to compel the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that federal law bans job discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. It is surfacing just as discussions are set to take place on October 8th examining three prominent cases that could determine if gay, lesbian and transgender individuals are protected from discrimination by existing federal civil rights laws.
In addition to General Motors, the brief was also signed by Amazon, American Airlines, Bank of American, Ben & Jerry’s, Coca-Cola, Domino’s Pizza, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Nike, Starbucks, Viacom, and many others. It argues in favor of a uniform federal rule that requires protection for LGBTQ employees across all 50 states.
“Even where companies voluntarily implement policies to prohibit sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination, such policies are not a substitute for the force of law,” the brief argues.
Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Schwartz and Michigan GOP operative Greg McNeilly, alongside 30 other well-noted Republicans, signed onto a separate brief that argues that the “plain language” of the law protects against discrimination toward transgender and gay workers.
“Both textualism and precedent accordingly command that Title VII’s words be applied to mean what they say: It is unlawful for an employee’s sex to contribute to an employer’s decision to discharge or otherwise discriminate against the employee,” argues the Republican brief. “Yet that is exactly what happened in all three cases on review.”
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Both the legal brief and Republican brief highlight a Michigan case from 2013, in which a funeral home fired an employee after she announced her transition from male to female. The funeral home asked the high court to hear the case and argued that an appeals court ruling in favor of the transgender employee “threatens freedom of conscience.”
It’s uncertain if the Supreme Court will follow in line with the arguments presented by the briefs or the recent federal appeals court rulings in Chicago, New York, and Cincinnati, which extend protection to transgender and gay workers.
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Source: Detroit News
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Maybe Bara should concentrate how Ford is eating her lunch – as opposed to making sure someone that identifies as a c banana does not feel triggered.
Yes, but I hear that Barra is going to discontinue GM’s involvement to focus more on crossovers.
We see GM has big priorities.. You want nicer interiors, she wants more lgbtqip2~ rights! So woke!
It’ll be struck down, you have to be identified as a protected class under title VII, or ADA of 1990 to be protected from discrimination. Some states amend to include others as a protected class, but ruling otherwise by the supreme court would open a floodgate as to who could claim discrimination. If they go by the letter of the law they’ll strike it down, but you can’t count on anything in our clown world anymore.
Good thing that law changed. July 2022.
This is nice, but I feel charity begins at home and it is hypocritical for GM to stand up for this social issues as they close factories, destroy communities, and separate families. Perhaps they should treat their employees better and practice social responsibility before going on a social crusade.
It has taken GM far too long to admit that they must make their crossovers more inclusive of crossdressers.
Morning in Clown World
Who knows, we’ll probably get a new Trans-Am out of the deal..bun-dump ? ?
A new Trans Sport is also in the works for the Drag Queen storytime gang
Me and my wife own GM products and Ohh my company owns 72 company GM vehicles, the woke weakness has me looking elsewhere. Enough is enough. Looking to cancel the 6 I have on order right now. GM should concentrate on building vehicles that electrical systems don’t crap out after 2 years instead of grooming kids.