Filip Novotny It's only been a few days, huh? Wall Street Journal published letter from Tim Cook regarding the anti-discrimination law ENDA. In it, the Apple director stood up for the rights of sexual and other minorities in the workplace and called on the US Congress to approve the legislation. This has now been achieved, after almost twenty years of effort.
Tim Cook Act called Employment Non-Discrimination Act supported in a rare media speech. According to him, a clear legal condemnation of discrimination against minorities in employment is absolutely essential. "The acceptance of human individuality is a matter of basic dignity and human rights," he wrote in an open letter to the WSJ.
However, American legislation has long been of a different opinion. The ENDA law first appeared in Congress in 1994, its ideological predecessor Equality Act then twenty years earlier. However, not one of the proposals has been implemented to date.
The situation has changed considerably during that time, and both the public and a part of the political establishment led by President Obama and the fourteen US states that have allowed gay marriage are more in favor of minority rights. And Tim Cook's voice certainly played a role as well.
And on Thursday, the US Senate passed the law with a 64-32 vote. ENDA will now travel to the House of Representatives, where its future is uncertain. Unlike the Senate, the conservative Republican Party has a majority in the lower chamber.
Still, Tim Cook remains optimistic. “Thank you to all the senators who supported ENDA! I call on the House of Representatives to also support this proposal and thus end discrimination," he wrote Apple CEO on his Twitter account.
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