South Dakota teen claims manager forced him to wear ‘Gaytard’ name tag at fast food job

[TorchTheWitch]

40. no, the exec order bars discrimination - harassment is something else

Discrimination and harassment are two different things. Examples of discrimination would be firing a person because they're gay, refusing to hire someone because they're gay, refusing to promote someone because they're gay, etc.

Harassment is abuse in the work place, and has been illegal concerning every worker for a very long time. Examples of harassment are things like verbal abuse of a worker, intentionally humiliating a worker, physical or sexual abuse of a worker, etc.

Further, the executive order you speak of is specific to federal contractors/sub-contractors and is about discrimination, not harassment since harassment of any worker for any reason has been illegal for a very long time.

http://www.govexec.com/contracting/2014/06/executive-order-will-ban-contractors-discriminating-against-gay-employees/86515/
A flurry of news reports on Monday said President Obama has directed staff to prepare an executive order to prohibit federal contractors from discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.

A White House official told The Huffington Post that the order would "build upon existing protections, which generally prohibit federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin."

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As for the story in question, what the boy alleges is not discrimination but harassment, and what he described was unusually abusive. If it occurred as he claims what was done to him has been illegal for a very long time for ANY worker.