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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 ...
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said he had revoked a six-decade-old executive order designed to combat workplace discrimination and promote affirmative action among federal contractors ...
The #MeToo movement has helped expose sexual harassment in the workplace, but the difficulties that women face on the job are by no means limited to unwanted advances or inappropriate remarks. On ...
Long gone are the days when Rosie the Riveter and her can-do attitude would just enter the workforce to help out the boys. Modern-day Rosie would statistically be working full time whether or not ...
The United States Constitution also prohibits discrimination by federal and state governments against their public employees. Discrimination in the private sector is not directly constrained by the Constitution, but has become subject to a growing body of federal and state law, including the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Federal ...
As of September 30, 2007, the EEOC's EEO-1 report must use the new racial and ethnic definitions in establishing grounds for racial or ethnic discrimination. [44] If an employee identifies their ethnicity as "Hispanic or Latino" as well as a race, the race is not reported in EEO-1, but it is kept as part of the employment record.
The 2015 report found 366 businesses achieved a top rating of 100 percent. The report also found 89% of Fortune 500 businesses have non-discrimination policies on the basis of sexual orientation, while 66% of Fortune 500 businesses have non-discrimination policies on the basis of gender identity. [111]
CROWN Act (2022; only applies to workplace discrimination) Texas Texas Constitution, Article I, §3a (1972) CROWN Act (2023) Utah Utah Constitution, Article IV, §1 (1896) Utah SB 296 (2015) Vermont Marriage Equality Act (2009) Virginia Virginia Constitution, Article I, §11 (1971) CROWN Act (2020) Voting Rights Act of Virginia (2021)