HuffingtonPost.com – Deborah J. Vagins
It’s Time for Congress to Help Bring LGBT Employees Out of the Shadows at Work
Alex Gorinsky was a well-regarded account manager for five years at a Texas finance leasing firm, consistently getting positive performance reviews and merit pay raises, until he brought Jon, his partner of three years, to the 2006 company Christmas party. Gorinsky, 34, was laid off three weeks later.
The firm cited vague “performance-related” reasons for his termination, but had to admit that his sales quota numbers were “solid.”
So what was the problem? It is the same problem many American workers deal with day-to-day when they have to hide themselves in order to protect their jobs.
Congress is considering approving a federal ban on job discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers.