Diversity Management, News and Updates
A new bill introduced in Maine seeks to stop employers from requiring their employees to sign nondisclosure agreements during workplace harassment and discrimination settlements or upon hiring. The bill, LD 1529, was passed in the Maine House and Senate during the last session but paused at Gov. Janet Mills’ desk…
Democratic Maine Governor Janet Mills signed a law Wednesday completely banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors in the state. In the strong move to protect vulnerable youth from the ineffective, so-called “therapy,” Mills tweeted: “Today I signed into law a bill banning conversion therapy, a widely-discredited practice that has no…
Maine is stepping up to be the first state to ban the use of Native American mascots, names and imagery in public schools. Using mascots and other caricatures of Native American symbols and imagery has long been seen as offensive to cultures that were largely destroyed by white settlers. The…
Just about halfway through Pride Month, the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles has announced it will acknowledge “non-binary” as a gender option. Effective in July 2019, “M,” “F” and “X” will all be options on licenses or IDs, the BMV said in a statement. In the interim, those wishing to…
This election cycle has brought with it a wave of young blood into the Democratic party. From Iowa to Maine to California to Pennsylvania, a group of young progressives are prime to crash the old white man’s party in D.C. Whether it is a 25-year-old Eagle scout raised by two…
A Republican who was running unopposed for a seat in Maine’s House of Representatives has dropped out of the race after calling a survivor of the Florida school shooting a “skinhead lesbian.” Leslie Gibson had no competitors before he wrote now-deleted tweets in which he called Emma Gonzlez, a student-turned-activist,…
A town manager with segregationist views who called for races to “voluntarily separate” will not resign but said he expects to be fired soon. He also claims he’s not racist. Tom Kawczynski, town manager of Jackman, Maine, shares a host of racist, anti-women, anti-LGBT and pro-Trump ideologies on his websites….
Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) did not hold back when he made racially charged comments regarding his state’s drug problem at a town hall meeting. LePage, who is a longtime friend of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and was the first major elected official to endorse Christie for president, addressed…