This week I told you that Tim Cook, the current CEO Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, made an unexpected gesture and published in the famous publication Wall Street Journal an article in which he supports legislation that prohibits discrimination in the workplace. Extremely many people were surprised by the position taken by the current CEO of the Apple company, but his proof of courage probably convinced some American senators to take the decision to vote favorably on this legislation, it being approved by the American Senate.
"The time has come for Congress to pass a federal law that ensures all citizens, regardless of where they live, can go to work not afraid of who they are," Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said on Thursday, noting that a vast majority of Americans already think such a law is in place. "Well, it isn't already the law," he added. "Let's do what the American people think already exists." Republicans who voted against the bill, known as the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, were muted in their opposition. The first senator to rise and speak against the bill on the floor all week was Dan Coats of Indiana, who said Thursday morning that religious freedoms were at risk, despite the bill's broad exemption for religious institutions. Those exemptions, he said, did not go far enough.
Despite an opposition formed against the legislation, she will go for approval in the House of Representatives, Tim Cook asking them to take exactly the same decision as their fellow senators. If both houses of the American Congress will give their vote of confidence on the law, it will then be sent to the American president Barack Obama who has the option to promulgate it, it will come into force on a date established by the American legislation.
