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New Report Shows Major Increase in Basic Workplace Protections for Gay, Transgender Employees [USA]
The number of Fortune 500 companies that ban workplace discrimination for transgender Americans has risen 60 percent since Jan. 2006 and has quadrupled since 2003, according to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s “State of the Workplace for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Americans 2006-2007,”...HRC Foundation President Joe Solmonese [said] “Fortune 500 companies are moving decisively to protect the entire GLBT community from workplace discrimination and it is time for our nation’s laws to catch up.” [refers to Honeywell, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon, Google, Yahoo!, Safeway, Costco, Merck, Eli Lilly, DuPont, Marriott, Hilton, Starwood]