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| Subject: Rights violation: Obuma to issue gay rights executive order Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:52 pm | |
| President Barack Obama will sign an order banning federal government contractors from discriminating against gay and transgender workers, officials have said.
The executive order follows years of pressure from gay rights groups.
Mr Obama cannot extend the protection to all American workers, however.
The order comes after far broader anti-discrimination legislation stalled in the Republican-led House of Representatives.
The executive order will apply only to federal contractors, which employ nearly one-quarter of the US workforce.
"This is a major step forward in the struggle for freedom and justice for [lesbian, gay, transgender and "queer"] workers and their families," Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said in a statement. "Now millions of people will have the economic security they need to provide for their families."
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