National Park Service reverses Pride ban for employees in uniform after backlash from LGBTQ+ community
National Park Service reverses Pride ban for employees in uniform after backlash from LGBTQ+ community
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland reversed an earlier policy forbidding employees from participating in uniform, which caused uproar.
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My wife briefly interned with the parks service. At least in the late 00s they didn't let employees go to liquor stores in uniform or even park an NPS vehicle outside one. So I wasn't surprised when the mandate was issued, but I'm equally unsurprised it was swiftly dropped.
Yeah. I work in a job tangentially related to the federal government, and we're continually reminded not to engage in anything that might imply affiliation or endorsement. I'm glad NPS is supporting LGBTQ+ causes, but I'm not sure why they get a pass on participating in uniform.
I think everyone is reading this as NPS not allowing Jane Employee to show up in uniform at Pride and hang out. Maybe theyâd frown on that. But what appears to be happening is that employees are petitioning to march in Pride parades, or otherwise somehow participate, as they have in years past, and which supports the LGBTQ+ Special Emphasis Program of federal agencies, and NPS is letting those requests sit.
Wait, are you equating the appearance of drinking on the job with supporting LGBTQ+?
No, they are saying you canât do certain things in uniform, because whether intentional or not anything you do in the uniform can be seen as representative of the uniform approving of it.
Hell when I worked at McDonaldâs, if you wanted to smoke you had to cover up the logo somehow.
The effect was that a bunch of people outside with a piece of duct tape on their very obvious McDonaldâs uniform smoking, but whatever.
There just commenting on restrictions against personal activities in official uniforms. I've had jobs that have had very restrictive uniform policies that basically restricted to coming from or going to work-home. Or even you're only allowed to be in uniform 30 minutes before or after a shift.
Beyond limiting wear on uniforms organizations general don't want to be associated with what every employer does in their free time. And they do this with broad policies that may even prevent things they would want, like wearing one at a LGBT rally.
They totally did. Not sure why you're being down voted other than bigotry.
Supporting equal rights is American. At least, the America I want to live in anyways.