Program in Clayton County, georgia. He took the program to unprecedented levels of success and hes making a difference in the lives of neglected children in his community, all of that changed when the county learned that he was gay. Hes been encouraging his friends to join a gay softball league. The fascinating part of this case and we will learn about how the Supreme Court arguments went this morning, goes back to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law protects americans from Workplace Discrimination, the Appeals Court has apparently splintered on this, the second and seventh circuit ruled it protects americans of lgtbq, but the 11th circuit did not. This is how it will run, i will let them speak for a little bit and tell us how the arguments went and the case, then i will ask a few questions and turn it over to the audience. I beg you to ask a twitter like question, we dont want sermons from the audience, and identify yourself as you do so. Gerald . Do you want to start off . And im s
Afternoon, im looking forward to the discussion. I promise to be nicer than the associate justices were in interrupting when they made their arguments. We are here because of this gentleman to my left, gerald bought stock who lost his job because of his Sexual Orientation. He was an awardwinning Child Welfare advocate in the casa program in Clayton County, georgia. He took the program to unprecedented levels of success and hes making a difference in the lives of neglected children in his community, all of that changed when the county learned that he was gay. Hes been encouraging his friends to join a gay softball league. The fascinating part of this case and we will learn about how the Supreme Court arguments went this morning, goes back to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law protects americans from Workplace Discrimination, the Appeals Court has apparently splintered on this, the second and seventh circuit ruled it protects americans of lgtbq, but the 11th circuit did not. This is h
Hosted this event. The committee will come to order. Before we get our termite all members we are in an open session and as such will discuss unclassified matters only. Without objection, the chair may declare in recess at any time. I welcome our members and witnesses to todays hearing. Im grateful you have joined us today to discuss admission imperative in the Intelligence Community, significant improvement of diversity and inclusion at all levels, from entrylevel to Senior Leadership and within all disciplines. While there has been some improvement in recent years, the demographic profile of the ic workforce still does not mirror that of the Wider Population and is lagging in attracting the best and the brightest from all walks of life. Fully taking advantage of the diverse intellect, innovation, and experiences here at home better prepares the ic, and our nation, to address tomorrows most pressing challenges and analyze an increasingly complicated and integrated world. In holding th
Created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The house modernization of Congress Committee explored best practices on how to recruit and retain a diverse Congressional Staff. Human resources executives and an author of three books on workplace topics testified and answered questions from committee members. This is about an hour and a half. Okay. All right. The committee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving retention among Congressional Staff. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be a 90 degrees in here, so my apologies to each of you. We will be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today we are going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution and th
A the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. In is cultivating diversity, improving retention with Congressional Staff. I recognize myself for five minutes for opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be 90 degrees in here. My apologies to each of you. Well be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today were going to talk about whats the backbone of this institution, the Congressional Staff that work here. I think i speak for all of us and those yet to come when i say we couldnt do our jobs without teams of people that work for us. Anytime i get a compliment where someone says nice job on this or that, my response is always i have a good team and i feel lucky for that. Theyre dedicated Public Servants that are here because they want to do meaningful work. They often choose careers on the hill and in the district offices, despite long hours, occasional lack of job s