The US Department of Education is pushing to strip workplace protections for pregnant or LGBTQ staff, telling its employee union the policies must be changed to conform to President Donald Trump’s executive order on “defending women from gender ideology extremism.”
In a May 9 email viewed by Bloomberg News, the agency invited the union to negotiate over “required changes” to the rules and shared a spreadsheet listing dozens of specific union contract provisions and human resources policies targeted for revisions.
It proposed that the word “pregnancy” be removed from several clauses, including one specifying types of discrimination that are prohibited in granting promotions. ...
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