Trump gay layoff

Dismissal for sexual orientation may be legal in the United States.

GAYLES.TV.- The president of the United States, Donald Trump, remains anchored in its battle against the rights of the people LGTB +. After the progress achieved by the Obama and the controversial veto the transsexuals who wanted to go to the army, now their new crusade is that «employers may dismiss employees for being gay or lesbian«.

To argue such an aberration, he goes back 1964, when the civil rights law in which workers were protected for reasons of nationality, race, sex or religion. The case is that in no case was discrimination based on sexual orientation specified. That point is what serves as an excuse for the Trump administration to prevent workers LGTB + are protected under the law.

The Trump administration has been based on the trial between Donald Zarda and the company Altitude Express. Zarda denounced the company by unfair dismissal and claimed that he had been dismissed for being a homosexual. At the trial, Altitude Express claimed in its defense that the law of Civil rights (Title VII) did not contemplate the protection of workers for discrimination based on sexual orientation, they were only covered by issues of sex, religion, origin and race. Unfortunately Zarda died in an accident in Switzerland at 2014, but his struggle is still valid.

According to the prosecutor of the Department of Justice Hashim Moopan "employers are allowed to consider the sexual conduct of their employees even outside the workplace » and that is why we are working to differentiate between sex and sexual orientation. Luckily the Commission for Equal Employment Opportunities (EEOC) considers that the law is based on sexual stereotypes, so sexual orientation is already implicit.