There is a major problem that is currently impacting the lives of United States citizens. That issue is discrimination in workplaces against employees, employers, job seekers, government contractors, and consumers. I’ve seen it discussed in books, news stories, and even heard stories from people I know. The truth of the matter is it has been a long time since the US legislature has done a large-scale update of the employment anti-discrimination laws.                                                                                   Some of the specific issues that need to be implemented include requiring employers to offer at least one week off for bereavement leave following the death of an immediate family member of that employee, protect former police officers from suffering discrimination related to their former job when seeking new employment, crack down age discrimination by banning discrimination against people aged between either 18 or 21 years of age to 39 years of age, and banning discrimination against people who were wrongfully convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. Some people would argue that these issues should be handled one at a time in individual pieces of legislation or be handled on the state level, but this would take too long, waste our time and money, and likely fail to deliver the results we need. Rather than do that I have opted to make a federal level, broad sweeping piece of anti-discrimination legislation, which I'm calling the Equitable Rights in Employment (Kübler-Ross) Act. This legislation would do the following:

1: Prohibit employer from discriminating against job applicants, employees, former employees, employers, government contractors, and consumers on the basis of their   

political identity

public and private k-12 schoolteacher status

firefighter status, regardless of whether they are professionals or volunteers

law enforcement officer status

social class

age (21-39)

relationship status

romantic orientation

gender identity

recent death in an individual’s immediate family

prior convictions for crimes which the individual has been exonerated for

2: Require companies that have at least eight employees to offer unpaid bereavement leave to their employees for them to use in the event of a recent death in their families. The bereavement leave period would be required to be at least one week. 

3: Prohibit employers and companies from using artificial intelligence and or robots to permanently replace employees who are currently on strike.

4: Have the Occupational Safety and Health Administration monitor and record the number of robots, artificial intelligence systems, and drones being used to perform work that could be done by human employees. The OSHA will create a yearly report that discusses their findings and present this report to the United States Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy, the United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, and the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce.  

It would also require companies who have robots, drones, and or Artificial Intelligence constitute fifty percent or more of their workforce to include a written disclosure on all of their products, written in a way consumers can easily understand, indicating this.

5: Require companies who have twenty or more employees, whose employees have jobs that have a significant risk of employees suffering life threatening injuries or infection by an infectious disease are required to offer health insurance to their employees, both full time and part time, working in those roles. 

6: Establish a task force in the Bureau of Labor Statistics to investigate how many people have been denied employment, mistreated or harassed in the workplace, or retaliated against based on the identities listed in section 1

I know many people in the United States have been negatively affected by the issues mentioned in this bill. If we don't act, these issues will likely persist and continue to negatively affect people, which may include you and or people you know and care about. I would like to bring to US Senators and Representatives representing Massachusetts to try to get this passed, but I can’t do this without public support. I implore you to please sign this petition so we can make this happen.