GOP against the no-rape clause that denies military contracts to companies that won’t let employees who are raped by co-workers sue for damages

Minnisota senator Al Franken's first bill before congress was one that would deny military contracts to companies that won’t let employees who are raped by co-workers sue for damages.


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This bill was produced due to the report led by Halliburton/KBR contractor Jamie Leigh Jones which stated that when working in Iraq in 2005 she was gang raped by her co-workers.


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Jones had been locked in a shipping container for over 24 hours and told that if she reported the rapes she would be fired from her position. A medical exam proved that Jones had been raped vaginally and anally.

Halliburton requires employees to sign a waiver, which would require all “disputes” to be settled out of court. In other words the waiver states that an individual may not sue the company if they are raped by a co-worker. As Jon Stewart put it on a recent episode of the Daily Show, it's “the old ‘it’s OK if you get raped’ clause!” Or, the “rape consent form.”

The Franken amendment passed 68 to 30.
“If to protect Halliburton, you have to side against rape victims,” explained Jon Stewart, “you might want to rethink your allegiances.”

I concur. Isn't this a no brainer folks?

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