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Employment discrimination is a form of illegal discrimination in the workplace based on legally protected characteristics. In the U.S., federal anti-discrimination law prohibits discrimination by employers against employees based on age , race , gender , sex (including pregnancy , sexual orientation , and gender identity ), religion , national ...
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act amended Title VII in 1978, specifying that unlawful sex discrimination includes discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. [4] A related statute, the Family and Medical Leave Act , sets requirements governing leave for pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions.
Job applicants with Jewish names or Jewish-linked prior employers were less likely to get responses for administrative assistant ... Employment discrimination based on religion is against the law.
This could include back-pay, job reinstatement, attorney's fees, expert witness fees, court costs, other compensatory damages, and punitive damages. Age-based discrimination and gender-based wage discrimination are not eligible for compensatory or punitive damages, but instead are limited to liquidated damages equal to the amount of back pay.
A Black man filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against a hotel after his job applications went ignored until he changed the name on his résumé to a white-sounding name.
Employment discrimination based on sexual orientation varies by country. Revealing a lesbian sexual orientation (by means of mentioning an engagement in a rainbow organisation or by mentioning one's partner name) lowers employment opportunities in Cyprus and Greece but overall, it has no negative effect in Sweden and Belgium.
Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945; CROWN Act (2022; only for public education) Arkansas CROWN Act (2023, only for public education) California: California Constitution, Article I, §8 (1879) California Fair Employment and Housing Act [8] Unruh Civil Rights Act; California Voting Rights Act; CROWN Act (2019) Colorado Colorado Constitution, Article ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another against their will to pursue job discrimination claims under federal civil rights law, even ...