Yeah, it's great news, all right, unless you get fired for being gay.
Worker rights probably DID influence Northrop GrummanWorker rights probably DID influence Northrop Grumman
By Paige Winfield Cunningham on April 28, 2010
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Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell put his eggs in his business policy basket during the campaign, and now one of them has hatched. Northrop Grumman is coming to town, setting up national headquarters either steps from the Pentagon or near Dulles airport.
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It’s great news for everyone else in Virginia, too.
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Speaking of our governor’s controversy-inciting master’s thesis, there was a lot of speculation last month that his exclusion of sexual orientation from the state’s nondiscrimination policy would sour large employers like NG on my state. Peter Galuszka, writer for the Richmond blog Bacon’s Rebellion,
suggested this in a post here yesterday.
But I would argue that the opposite is true.
Employers look for environments that carry the least amount of risk. They want fewer ways for employees to sue them, not more. NG probably does have the solid reputation for diversity that Galuszka states. But the last thing it wants is for that reputation to be marred by a nasty lawsuit.
If that’s true, Virginia’s shorter list of employee rights would have gone on the “pros” side of NG’s comparison sheet. In Virginia, you can’t sue for being fired because of your sexual orientation or genetic information, but you can in Maryland.
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As Del. Dave Albo (R-Fairfax) said yesterday, “There is not a company in the U.S. or in the world who would move someplace because they have a better opportunity to be sued.”
Paige Winfield Cunningham is an investigative reporter and managing editor for Old Dominion Watchdog.
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Cunningham graduated from Wheaton College (Illinois) in 2006 with degrees in history, economics and music.
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