"'Clock In For Equality' is Lambda Legal’s response to a very real need our community has identified: creating and maintaining discrimination-free workplaces for all employees."

(Dallas, February 2, 2007) — This morning in Dallas, Lambda Legal unveiled its plans for ‘Clock In For Equality’ — a national day of action for workplace fairness for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers, and workers living with HIV.

“Of the over 5,000 calls our national help desk hotline received last year, the rights of LGBT employees was far and away the most common concern raised by our callers,” said Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director of Lambda Legal.“ ’Clock In For Equality’ is Lambda Legal’s response to a very real need our community has identified: creating and maintaining discrimination-free workplaces for all employees.”

Even though the latest Gallup Poll from May 2006 shows that 89% of Americans believe that discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation is wrong, there is still no federal law that forbids it and a majority of the states still lack laws to protect against such discrimination.

On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 workers from coast-to-coast will participate in activities that aim to advance basic nondiscrimination measures to rid the workplace of discrimination so all employees can be free to do their jobs. Lambda Legal is working with local groups nationwide to plan simultaneous activities including advocating for nondiscrimination policies to protect LGBT workers and workers living with HIV, supporting a bill or local ordinance that will protect all LGBT workers and workers with HIV from workplace discrimination, and holding educational forums on harassment-free workplaces. Lambda Legal is partnering with local groups as diverse as farm workers to Ernst & Young’s and Levi Strauss & Company’s LGBT employee associations in cities across the country to produce events and forums aimed at making the work environment places where all employees have the opportunity to do their jobs free of harassment.

For more information about “Clock In for Equality” please visit www.lambdalegal.org/clockin.