The Act adds “sex” to some titles like “public accommodations,” and adds “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” in nearly all federal law, while also greatly expanding the scope of public accommodations. Originally and narrowly limited to restaurants, hotels, theaters, and other establishments (a function of efforts to prevent the rejection of racial minorities in public places during the dark days of segregation), the definition of public accommodation under the Act would be unilaterally expanded to include “any establishment that provides a good, service, or program.” And it would include “a store, shopping center, online retailer or service provider, salon, bank, gas station, food bank, service or care center, shelter, travel agency, or funeral parlor, or establishment that provides health care, accounting, or legal services.”
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email EEOC Cancels Official Time for Union Reps Across Government
In a party-line vote, commission members issued a final rule stripping union officials from access to official time to work on colleagues’ discrimination complaints and tried to exempt the regulation from the Congressional Review Act.
Members of the federal agency tasked with eliminating workplace discrimination voted 3-2 along party lines Thursday to strip union federal employees of their right to official time to work on discrimination complaints, undoing nearly 50 years of precedent.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guarantees official time to federal employees working on their colleagues’ discrimination claims, a policy intended to help victims feel more comfortable and navigate a complicated and difficult adjudication process.
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Earlier this week, legislators returned to Washington to make a number of key decisions about oversight committee leadership, membership, and investigative agendas. As one of their first official items of business, the U.S. House of Representatives approved in a party-line vote a rules package governing processes and procedures for the 117th Congress.
1 As discussed below, the rules package is noteworthy because it identifies early investigative priorities in the coming Congress, all of which appear aligned with Biden Administration priorities relating to pandemic response, economic recovery, environmental justice, and diversity and equity issues. The rules package also indicates an intent to make full use of the oversight tools available to conduct investigations.
Democrats propose updating House rules to protect whistleblowers from being named by lawmakers Follow Us
Question of the Day By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times - Saturday, January 2, 2021
Whistleblowers like the one who sparked President Trump’s impeachment proceedings would gain protection under new rules for the U.S. House of Representatives proposed by Democratic leadership Friday.
Included within the 45-page rules package offered before the 117th Congress begins Sunday is language making it a violation of the House’s Code of Conduct for members to reveal a whistleblower’s identity.
Specifically, the rule-change prohibits “knowingly and willfully disclose publicly the identity of, or personally identifiable information about, any individual who has reported allegations of possible wrongdoing.”
Mon Dec 21, 2020 The DOJ (Sessions, Rosenstein), FBI (Comey, Strzok), and CIA (Brennan) were all key players in the attempted coup against President Trump. As that unfolded, and long before, a more powerful agency was playing a bigger role, largely out of sight from the media and public. The Senior Executive Service (SES) was established to “ensure that the executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the highest quality.” SES leaders “serve in the key positions just below the top Presidential appointees” as “the major link between these appointees and the rest of the Federal workforce. They operate and oversee nearly every government activity in approximately 75 Federal agencies,” including the State Department, the Army, Navy, the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and the Department of Justice.