San Francisco could ask city job applicants and workers to confidentially and voluntarily provide sexual orientation and gender-identity information under amendments to the city’s sexual privacy ordinance the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Tuesday. A final vote is scheduled next week.
The idea is to ascertain demographics of applicants and employees with the goal of identifying, measuring, and addressing the needs of city employees and LGBTQ+ equity issues in the workplace.
The original sexual privacy law “was necessary when enacted in 1985 to protect LGBTQ+ City employees and applicants from potential discrimination at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic” and ...
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