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04/15/2008


North Carolina Officials Assure the State Can Discriminate

A rule in the state's personnel handbook showed up online that wasn't supposed to be there. It said that the state bans discrimination based on sexual orientation. So not true:

Stam"State officials Monday removed a ban on anti-gay discrimination from an online copy of the state's personnel handbook. North Carolina does not ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in hiring, discipline and pay of state employees. The State Personnel Commission's attempt to change that was rejected in January by the state Rules Review Commission as overstepping the other appointed board's authority. But the rule change showed up all the same in one of two copies of the handbook on the Office of State Personnel's Web site. The other had the correct version. 'Somehow it mistakenly got put on the Web site,' personnel office spokeswoman Margaret Jordan said. House Republican Leader Paul Stam last week criticized the proposed rule, similar to measures that have failed in the legislature, and questioned why it appeared in the handbook."

Oh, some programmer daydreaming for a more just and decent world.

Ban on anti-gay discrimination taken off personnel handbook on state site [tr]

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  1. Something isn't adding up here. This is a press release from Equality NC from yesterday.

    4/14/2008 - Equality North Carolina announced today a significant victory in its campaign to end legal discrimination in our state. The 2008 edition of the State Personnel Manual, which covers most state employees, now includes a prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.

    Read the whole thing here... http://equalitync.org/news1/20080414

    Posted by: willnDurhamNC | Apr 15, 2008 8:28:37 AM


  2. Yay, another towleroad reader in Durham. Hey Will.

    Posted by: tekay | Apr 25, 2008 4:39:01 PM


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