02/09/2010
The Cleveland City Council has passed legislation expanding the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance to include transgender individuals. By adding “gender identity and expression” to a list of protected classes that already includes sexual orientation, Cleveland now offers one of the most all-encompassing anti-discrimination statutes in the state.
02/09/2010
When Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts won January’s special election to fill the seat long occupied by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, Democrats lost their 60-vote supermajority in the Senate. That means it will be that much more difficult for the Obama administration to make good on many of its pro-employee campaign promises. That’s not to say those employment law initiatives are dead. The following are the key initiatives pending in Congress.