Today the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law issued a report (here) about employment discrimination against LGBT people in Utah. From the press release:
The study found that Utah’s LGBT employees are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Over 43% of LGB respondents and 66% of transgender respondents to the 2010 survey reported that they had been fired, denied a job, or not promoted because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Nearly 30% of LGB respondents and 45% of transgender respondents experienced workplace harassment on a weekly basis during the previous year.***
Discrimination negatively affects employers, as well as employees. Several of Utah’s cities and private employers have already adopted anti-discrimination ordinances and policies protecting sexual orientation and gender identity, suggesting that doing so makes good business sense.
30-45% experiencing harassment? 100% depressing.
-Bridget Crawford
This is depressing.
Hopefully, the recent increase in antidiscrimination statutes in Utah will have some positive effect (http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50924610-76/utah-discrimination-lake-ordinances.html.csp).
And it’s more evidence of the necessity of the anti-discrimination bill being sponsored by my law school classmate Ben McAdams (a married Mormon): http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/EXCLUSIVE-New-bill-would-ban-discrimination/gAKef8ltVEOShWLzgeoPVA.cspx
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