Measure Seeks to Change Utah's Discrimination Law

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › May 22, 2008

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Shanti Akayla says she was a highly praised employee at her sales job -- until someone saw her rainbow bumper sticker. Then, she was fired.

"I was not out at work, I was not dating," Akayla, 39, told a legislative panel Wednesday. "My employer made an assumption about me because of a bumper sticker ... I had never been fired and I haven't been since."

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Measure Seeks to Change Utah's Discrimination Law

Akayla had no legal recourse, because, in Utah, employment discrimination law doesn't extend protections based on sexual orientation or gender identity. That'...

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