http://en.wordpress.com/tag/federal-contractor-discrimination/ Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "federal-contractor-discrimination" Sun, 26 May 2013 04:13:02 +0000 http://en.wordpress.com/tags/ en http://govcontractsblog.com/2012/04/18/obama-defers-to-congress-on-anti-bias-rules-for-federal-contractors/ Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:08:57 +0000 govcontractsblog http://govcontractsblog.com/2012/04/18/obama-defers-to-congress-on-anti-bias-rules-for-federal-contractors/ The Obama administration has taken the unusual step of publicly addressing an Executive Order they are not going to enact.  “The president is committed to lasting and comprehensive change, and therefore our goal is passage of ENDA, which is a legislative solution to LGBT employment discrimination.” White House spokesman Shin Inouye said last week.  The reason the president was addressing a hypothetical Executive Order was the letter sent to him by 72 Democratic Members of Congress urging he sign such an order.   With the divided congress and elections on the horizon, it is highly unlikely we’ll see any legislation passed addressing this issue soon.   However, five Department of Defense contractors have already adopted anti-bias as policy.

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