Knowing what constitutes discrimination in the workplace 13 Articles

by Malcolm Toogood

A dinner lady, someone who cooks for, and serves, schoolchildren during their mealtimes, got a shock last week (April 2008) when she received an employee survey questionnaire from her employers, a UK Local Authority. At...read more

by Themis Libra

Something that a lot of EOE (Equal Opportunity Employers) agencies need to stress is that there is discrimination within work places that need to be identified. For example, if an employer from India owns their own com...read more

by John Drosche

Employment Discrimination laws seek to prevent discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical disability, and age by employers. This is the law and it is established by the federal goverment unde...read more

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by Jim Byrd

Nancy Pelosi, ignoring a majority vote in the Senate and House, is trying to force the Salvation Army to hire people who can't speak English. The full Senate voted 75-19 and the House voted 218-186 passing an amendment ...read more

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by Rita Joyce

Needless to say, there is so much racial discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace today, even as we now move into the year 2008. But, let's just focus on racial discrimination in the workplace here for the mom...read more

by Informative Mom

Sexuall Harassement in the workplace take on a whole new meaning when you are dealing with someone you never considered to do the harassement in the first place. I don't know if this happens to many men or women but, I h...read more

by Jared Garrett

Discrimination in the workplace! What an overblown concept! As constantly overdiagnosed as ADHD, ADD, ARE, YOU, AMORON and LEARNTOTHINKFORYOURSELF! When a boss gives a job that will require longer hours and physical labor ...read more

by Sarah Burn

The practical apllication of employemnt law- please note this applies only to Britain. Let's take the first case study and we'll call her Alison. Alison received written notice of the change in her contract: because of ...read more

by Lim Jie Sheng

The first discriminatory practice is gender prejudice. This is most common in the workplace. Women are often given lower-ranked jobs than men. Although employers claim that man and women have equal opportunities in life, s...read more

by Maribel Sicat

There are many types of discrimination by sex/gender, age, racial/cultural, religion, etc. You may notice co-workers kissing each other on the cheek as a sign of greeting, but to you it's a discrimination because it made y...read more

by Dominick Wynn

Discrimination in the work place is not necessarily hating someone, yelling racial slurs at them. It could be a supervisor that gives to an unfair advantage, or lack of discipline to cause of gender, race, shape ...read more

by Keith Hillman

Many organisations, including the police, use positive discrimination when recruiting staff. This is seen by many to be a fair means of recruitment, especially when a balance of white, Asian and black team members is seen ...read more

by Brian Carsten

If you feel you have been discriminated against, you probably have. Despite the numerous laws designed to prevent discrimination, its effects can be subtle and difficult to prove. Perhaps you were denied promotion to a j...read more