Employment and Rights in the Workplace

Lambda Legal joined more than 50 organizations in a letter today asking the President to issue an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against lesbian and gay employees.

President Obama signed into law yesterday a defense budget bill including a clause that may allow service members to invoke “religious conscience” as a defense for illegal discrimination. The President promised to protect the rights of lesbian and gay service members.

The Alaska Dispatch has more on our discrimination case in Anchorage.

Lambda Legal represents seven lesbian and gay state employees who are challenging a move by the Arizona Legislature to eliminate the equal health care benefits that those employees rely on to safeguard their families' health—just as their heterosexual colleagues do.