The guidance noted that, as a result, an employer’s limiting “to certain protected groups” membership in workplace groups such as Employee Resource Groups, or other employee affinity groups ...

"I felt more empowered and safer once I had signed up for it," a survivor of stalking said of Vermont's Safe at Home program.

Affinity Groups The guidance provides that Employers cannot limit, segregate, or classify employees based on any protected characteristic in a way that deprives them of employment opportunities.

For example, everyone is protected from discrimination ... A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. Hispanic or Latino – A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central ...

It’s the country’s first protected area specifically designed for people living in isolation. “Through this resolution, ...