Employment and Rights in the Workplace

For more than three decades, workplace equality has been a top priority for Lambda Legal, and workplace concerns remain the number one topic for our Legal Help Desk calls. While a growing number of employers and state and local governments have enacted policies and laws to address discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and HIV status, we have no federal statute banning discrimination, and almost half of all LGBT workers go to work every day without explicit state-level sexual orientation and gender identity antidiscrimination laws.