Posted on 06/22/2010 5:00:24 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Expands Family Medical Leave Act to Cover Gay Employees
The Labor Department is poised to announce new regulations this week that orders U.S. employers to give gay employees equal treatment under the law, allowing those workers unpaid time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act. fox news
The Labor Department is poised to announce new regulations this week that order U.S. employers to give gay employees equal treatment under the law, allowing those workers unpaid time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
The announcement comes as the President Obama declares June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender month, with a celebration Tuesday night at the White House.
But while some say recognizing gay parenthood is important to the LGBT community, there are other more prominent issues those in the community would like to see progress on, like recognizing same-sex marriage.
Obama has said he does not support same-sex marriage, but Carrie Gordon Earle of Focus on the Family says the latest effort by the Labor Department is a unilateral move by the Obama White House designed to eventually bypass the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
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A celebration?
See you in court........
f’n rump wranglers.
Remember when laws used to be passed by Congress?
See my new tag line.
This is an interesting point. While the president can have some expansive authority when issuing EOs, that authority must be grounded in statutory law. I have not read the FMLA in some time, but I believe - by statute - that provision is explicitly limited to husband, wife, son, mother, father, daughter or next of kin (kin meaning related). How can a homosexual "couple" qualify under the statute when all but a handful of states don't legally recognize their relationship?
He need to please his lover
The guy who can fire the CEO of GM or steal Chrysler from its’ rightful owners or tell BP to put $20 Billion in escrow or appoint a czar to disperse that money can’t tell every CEO what to do?
If there are 25 homosexual employees at a company that is in in a state that does not recognize homosexual marriage, how do you determine which employee will get the family leave?
How the Presient presumes to amend laws without Congressional approval floors me. How would one challenge this? Could an employer take it to court?
Face it: A tenet of Obamunism is that everybody is entitled to everything indefinitely, whether it is FMLA, unemployment compenation or anything else. There are no limits.
WTF.We need to destroy the drones who elect these criminals.
I am sorry to say that we thus far have no answer to Obama and the Obamabots.
That would be discriminatory toward the heterosexuals. Would it not?
The Family Medical Leave Act is a complete JOKE and not worth the paper it’s written on. I speak from first-hand experience.
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