The BE HEARD Act is comprehensive legislation to prevent workplace harassment, strengthen and expand key protections for workers, and support workers in seeking accountability and justice
ICYMI: Senator Murray Sounds Alarm Over Trump’s EEOC Eliminating Anti-Harassment Guidance, Abandoning Robust Enforcement of Workplace Sexual Harassment
Senator Murray forcefully opposed Andrea Lucas’s nomination and Trump’s illegal firings of Commissioners Burrows & Samuels; In July hearing, Murray grilled Andrea Lucas on EEOC’s shocking dismissal of discrimination cases under her tenure—MORE HERE
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member and former Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, reintroduced the Bringing an End to Harassment by Enhancing Accountability and Rejecting Discrimination (BE HEARD) in the Workplace Act of 2026, alongside Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX-29), and Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10), who introduced the bill in the House. In response to Trump and Andrea Lucas, Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), eliminating workplace anti-harassment guidance and attacking transgender workers for using the locker rooms, bathrooms, and private spaces, this bill takes critical steps to address workplace harassment, protects against discrimination based on gender identity and sexuality, and ensures workers can seek accountability and justice. These moves come at a...
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