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- From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Private antidiscrimination policies in CO (was Re: Attention...)
- Message-ID: <28@bbx.basis.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:10:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.032000.10182@spdcc.com> <1992Dec31.013013.13337@bsu-ucs> <C04vHy.55z@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>
- Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA
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- In article <C04vHy.55z@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser) writes:
- >Oh, the company could claim it was solely based on sexual orientation --
- >especially if you had been an employee of Cracker Barrel "Family"
- >Restaurants.
- >
- >Let us not forget the employees in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky,
- >Virginia, North Carolina, and elsewhere fired simply because they were
- >Gay or Lesbian. No work-related issues (performance, attendance, etc.)
- >were stated, officially or "off the record", as the reason for their
- >firings; the only reason listed for most of them was that their
- >homosexuality precluded them from being employed by Cracker Barrel.
- >
- >Of course, Cracker Barrel never included "sexual orientation" in any
- >type of official company policy -- but they _DID_ fire these employees
- >explicitly because of their sexual orientation, so we should not see
- >claims from any of the ChronicallyClueless (tm) that no one has ever
- >been fired for "being gay".
-
- The local gay organization was up in arms recently over a firing of
- a gay employee from a "Lot-a-burger" chain restaurant. It seems
- that another employee complained to his mother about having to
- work with a homosexual. The mother made a big stink and Lot-a-burger
- fired the gay employee. The employee's manager was quoted as
- admitting that the gay employee was one of their best workers (not
- a smart thing to say when you're facing a potential lawsuit).
-
- --
- Scott Amspoker |
- Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | Too bad ignorance isn't really
- | bliss. Then it could be outlawed.
- scott@bbx.basis.com |
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