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Participants carrying a rainbow flag attend the annual gay pride. | Reuters/Annika Af Klercker/TT News Agency A judge has ruled against a group of churches, schools and a pro-life pregnancy center challenging a Virginia law that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to state antidiscrimination law. Judge James E. Plowman Jr. issued a ruling from the bench last week in favor of the Virginia Values Act, which was passed by the Democrat-controlled state government in 2020. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring released a statement last Friday expressing support for the ruling, which w...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Effective July 1, 2021, Virginia further expands the scope of the Virginia Human Rights Act (VHRA) to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability. The state also enacted protections and benefits for domestic workers. Disability Discrimination With this expansion of the VHRA, employers will be required to make reasonable accommodation to the known physical and mental impairments of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, if necessary to assist such person in performing a particular job. An accommodation must be provid...

Monday, April 12, 2021 Effective July 1, 2021, Virginia further expands the scope of the Virginia Human Rights Act (VHRA) to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability. The state also enacted protections and benefits for domestic workers. Disability Discrimination With this expansion of the VHRA, employers will be required to make reasonable accommodation to the known physical and mental impairments of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, if necessary to assist such person in performing a particular job. An accommodation must be provided, unless an employer can...

Police departments in Hampton Roads are actively recruiting and last updated 2021-03-08 16:50:42-05 HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – Local police departments are hiring. Virginia Beach has more than 90 vacancies and Chesapeake reports more than 30. “A lot more shortages than we’ve had in the past,” said Officer Dupree Foster, a recruiter with the Chesapeake Police Department. “You have a lot going on: the national climate with law enforcement.” Officer Foster said ten new recruits just started last week, and despite the COVID pandemic and recent unrest, the recruits they are...

Half of US states lack most basic protections for LGBTQ people, report finds CNN 1/28/2021 Maria Morava and AJ Willingham, CNN © Robin Rayne/AP Supporters of Georgia's transgender and non-binary community stroll through the city's Midtown district during Gay Pride Festival's Transgender Rights March in Atlanta on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Robin Rayne) Half of US states fail to offer basic protections for LGBTQ people, according to a report by the country's largest LGBTQ advocacy group. The Human Rights Campaign's State Equality Index examines state-level policies...