Raskin also asked Scalia to revisit the department’s decision to remove from its website a report on “Advancing LGBTQ Workplace Rights” its publication of a directive that was a precursor to the plan to codify certain religious exemptions and its publication of a final rule that exempted medical facilities participating in the TRICARE health-care program from the authority of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, or OFCCP, which enforces workplace civil rights laws among federal contractors. Raskin’s letter suggests that if the rules are finalized they could be subject to greater scrutiny from lawmakers if Democrats win the White House and control of the Senate in the November elections. The DOL’s proposed rules also face a time crunch, with fewer than 80 days remaining before the presidential election. His request, which cited House Oversight’s wide-ranging investigative authority, reflects the ongoing clash between religious liberties and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, including at work-an issue that will once again come before the high court. Furthermore, the Court’s clear affirmation of LGBTQ+ rights should prompt an examination of the Administration’s expansion of religious liberty exemptions to nondiscrimination requirements.” In his letter, Raskin said, “the Supreme Court ruled that prohibitions on discrimination on the basis of sex include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.” He added, “The Department, therefore, should immediately reverse its systematic refusal to enforce LGBTQ+ rights. “We do not hesitate to recognize today a necessary consequence of that legislative choice: An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.” “Congress adopted broad language making it illegal for an employer to rely on an employee’s sex when deciding to fire that employee,” Gorsuch wrote. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s liberal members, justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. The high court ruled 6-3 in favor of LGBT workers, with Justice Neil Gorsuch-a nominee of President Donald Trump-writing the majority opinion. 2 that “describes the steps that the Department will take to reevaluate and alter these discriminatory policies in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock.” His letter, dated Wednesday, requested a written plan by Sept. Raskin also urged Scalia to reconsider a rule that would exempt religious organizations that participate in DOL programs from providing a notice of non-discrimination, among other actions that he said “significantly undercut the civil rights and liberties of LGBTQ+ people.” Clayton County include the agency’s plan to codify certain religious exemptions from anti-discrimination obligations, Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, said in a letter to Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia. The proposed rules that should be reviewed in light of the high court’s June decision in Bostock v. Supreme Court decision that confirmed federal workplace protections extend to those workers. The chairman of a House panel with jurisdiction over civil rights issues called on the Labor Department to “reevaluate and alter” proposed policies and rules that “allow for discrimination against LGBTQ+ people,” following the landmark U.S.

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