Friday, March 5, 2021
Biz Groups Are a “No” on PRO. As the
Buzz mentioned last week, the U.S. House of Representatives is teeing up a vote on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021 (H.R. 842/S. 420) to occur sometime next week. In anticipation of the vote, this week the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace sent a letter opposing the legislation to members of Congress. Signed by 248 organizations, the letter states that the PRO ACT “would drastically restructure America’s labor laws resulting in economic upheaval that would cost millions of American jobs, threaten vital supply chains, and greatly diminish opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses.”
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden was expected to fire Sharon Gustafson, the Trump-appointed general counsel of the EEOC, on Friday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation.
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Biden Fires Trump-Appointed Anti-LGBT EEOC Lawyer Who Refused to Resign
President Biden has fired Sharon Gustafson, the Trump-appointed general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who focused much of her work on combating “religious discrimination” in the workplace.
Bloomberg Lawreports that the Biden Administration originally asked Gustafson to resign earlier this week but she refused. In a letter to Biden explaining her refusal to resign, Gustafson wrote that her resignation would lead to a “suppression of our work promoting religious freedom.”
The Washington Post adds that under Gustafson’s counsel last year, the EEOC sued the grocery chain Kroger on behalf of two workers in Arkansas who said wearing an apron embroidered with a small rainbow-colored heart, which they believed to be a pro-LGBT symbol, violated their religious beliefs.