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  4. From: rogerk@QueerNet.ORG (Roger B.A. Klorese)
  5. Subject: Re: Colorado Amendment 2: The First Fatality
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  7. Message-ID: <Bxrytt.B1J@queernet.org>
  8. Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:41:52 GMT
  9. References: <1992Nov12.193724.22309@tc.cornell.edu> <1992Nov12.221645.25826@ncar.ucar.edu> <1992Nov12.225125.25182@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov13.000852.7740@ncar.ucar.edu>
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  14. In article <1992Nov13.000852.7740@ncar.ucar.edu>, gary@colossus.cgd.ucar.edu
  15. (Gary Strand) writes:
  16. |>   Actually, I was let go from a job (that I needed to pay for college)
  17. |>   because
  18. |>   I was a *single* white het male. The boss gave my job to another white het
  19. |>   male who happened to have kids. I guess the protections for marital status
  20. |>   didn't protect me, did they?
  21.  
  22. Did you try to exercise those protections?
  23.  
  24. If your claim is true, the laws protecting you don't prevent your employer from
  25. firing you; they do, however, provide access to remedy.  Did you retain counsel?
  26. Or file a claim with a state or federal agency?
  27. -- 
  28. ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                              +1 415 ALL-ARFF
  29. rogerk@unpc.QueerNet.ORG              {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!sgiblab!unpc!rogerk
  30. "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
  31.                                                                    -- J. Foster
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