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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Colorado Memory Systems & Non-Discrimination
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.173637.19358@spdcc.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:36:37 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov18.173637.19358
- References: <BxvF9M.6uF@scd.hp.com>
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- may@hpcesma.ce.hp.com writes:
- >Colorado Memory Systems, makers of the "Jumbo" tape backup system for PCs,
- >was recently acquired by Hewlett-Packard. CMS is located in Loveland,
- >Colorado. As part of the acquisition, CMS employees are being covered
- >by HP's policies including HP's policy on discrimination based on sexual
- >orientation which basically says you can't (discriminate).
-
- I'll ask this again.
-
- If someone feels they are discriminated against, what recourse does
- [s]he have, in light of the anti-discrimination policy and Co:2?
-
- If X has homophobic manager Y who fires him/her in violation
- of the anti-disc. policy, as near as I can tell X can't take Y
- or Y's company to court in Colorado, since in the view of the state
- no discrimnation took place. IF Y's company feels that it was right
- in firing X, that's it, end of story.
-
- While I'm sur the largest companies like HP would probably
- not let this happen, at the smaller company level it seems pretty
- obvious that CO:2 effectively places all private sector
- anti-disc. plicies at the whim of the company itself.
-
- Which in any adverse cases is no protection at all.
-
-
- People fdefending or minimilizing CO:2's impact tend
- to state that it only aplpies to state/local gov't employees.
- I assert that since it affects the state judiciary branch, it
- now affects EVERYONE in the state since any concept of justice
- has gone right out the window.
-
- Now the other question is - it is poosible to start
- court battles at the Federal level for something occuring at the state
- level if the battle isn't allowed to be fought? If so then we
- have a way out that might make it easier to overturn CO:2.
-
- If not (and I expect that's the case hance the expression
- "taking somethingf to a higher court" implying you start at the bottom),
- then CO:2 has effectively wiped away all rights for GBLO*-people in CO
- regardless of public/private situations. We aren't allowed to
- combat injustice, and injustice is now institutionalized.
-
- BBC
-