News about current legislation affecting workplace rights before the U.S. Congress and the legislatures of all 50 states.
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Anti-discrimination bill reintroduced in Pa.
Date: October 19, 2006
A Pennsylvania
legislator announced the reintroduction of legislation that would ban anti-gay discrimination in employment,
housing and credit statewide. "The fact that someone is gay or straight has nothing to do with his or her
ability to do a good job or the ability to be a good neighbor or tenant," said state Rep. Dan Frankel. "It is
long past time for Pennsylvania to join the 17 states that already ban anti-gay discrimination on the job."
Under the bills, sexual orientation and gender identity would join the categories of discrimination banned by
the state's Human Relations Act, which now include race, color, familial status, religious creed, ancestry,
age, sex, national origin, handicap or disability, or the use of a guide or support animal when necessary.
New Pa. law could help city fill its teacher vacancies
Source: Susan Snyder, Philadelphia Inquirer
Date: July 9, 2004
A new state law allowing retired educators to come back and work a full year in districts with
shortages--without losing their pensions--is expected to help Philadelphia fill its teaching vacancies. Gov.
Rendell this week signed the law, largely a result of heavy lobbying by the Philadelphia district and its
teachers' union, the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. While its impact is likely to be greatest in
Philadelphia, the law also is expected to help other urban and rural districts, and even some suburban ones
struggling with principal and speciality-teacher vacancies.
