{"id":3306,"date":"2005-05-06T11:34:04","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T18:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/06\/microsoft-reconsiders-supports-anti-discrimination-laws\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T22:43:20","slug":"microsoft-reconsiders-supports-anti-discrimination-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/06\/microsoft-reconsiders-supports-anti-discrimination-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reconsiders, supports anti-discrimination laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Scoble<\/a>, Ballmer’s e-mail announcing Microsoft’s re-committing to support anti-discrimination legislation covering sexual orientation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n After looking at the question from all sides, I\u2019ve concluded that diversity in the workplace is such an important issue for our business that it should be included in our legislative agenda. Since our beginning nearly 30 years ago, Microsoft has had a strong business interest in recruiting and retaining the best and brightest and most diverse workforce possible. I\u2019m proud of Microsoft\u2019s commitment to non-discrimination in our internal policies and benefits, but our policies can\u2019t cover the range of housing, education, financial and similar services that our people and their partners and families need. Therefore, it\u2019s appropriate for the company to support legislation that will promote and protect diversity in the workplace.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, Microsoft will continue to join other leading companies in supporting federal legislation that would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation \u2013 adding sexual orientation to the existing law that already covers race, sex, national origin, religion, age and disability. Given the importance of diversity to our business, it is appropriate for the company to endorse legislation that prohibits employment discrimination on all of these grounds. Obviously, the Washington State legislative session has concluded for this year, but if legislation similar to HB 1515 is introduced in future sessions, we will support it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good to see.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/ins> Here’s the Seattle Times’ story<\/a>.

Via Scoble, Ballmer’s e-mail announcing Microsoft’s re-committing to support anti-discrimination legislation covering sexual orientation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042,2038],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-tech","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}