Impact of Discrimination on an Organization
By Naeem A Syed – Organization Geared Up Once the New Year is up, all hectic activities of a company become suddenly geared up. New Proposals, New Product launch, New Tenders, New Contracts, New Agreements, New Recruitment, New Appointments, and so on. Each Department or Division responsible for the respective activities starts its part of [...]
First Line Supervisors – The “Achilles Heel” in Discrimination Cases
By Cathy Baniewicz – Having the correct human resources policies and procedures in place is not sufficient to prevent findings of unlawful discrimination if your supervisors are not properly trained. Often someone is promoted into supervision without any experience managing people. First line supervisors are considered to be “management” and as such are responsible for [...]
Age Discrimination Claims Rise Along With Unemployment Rates
By Thomas H. Taylor – When unemployment claims climb, it only makes sense that employment-related discrimination and retaliation claims follow suit. And statistics from the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission indicate that is indeed the case: employment discrimination and retaliation claims by employees go hand in hand. Laid-off workers — especially those who are 40 [...]
Harassment and Discrimination Laws Broken – Your Bill
By Franca Sala Tenna – Hindsight is a great thing. With hindsight we would change so many of our actions, or would we? Big Audio Dynamite sing, “if I had my time again I’d do it all the same.” Is this the song that employers sing when it comes to how they treat their employees, [...]
Racial Discrimination In The Workplace
By Joseph Devine – Racial Discrimination is any action or attitude, conscious or unconscious, which subordinates an individual based on race. According to the United States Civil Rights Commission, it can occur on an individual or institutional level. Unfortunately, in 2007, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 30,510 charges of discrimination based on race. Of [...]
Pregnancy Discrimination in the United States
By Pauline Go – How many women believe that they are being treated fairly when it comes to employment? There may not be too many women in this world who can raise their hands to this question. But the fact remains that women are capable of doing the same job as a man. And the [...]
How Common is Job Discrimination?
By Joseph Devine – Discrimination in the workplace became illegal when President Lyndon B Johnson signed the Equal Employment Opportunity Order in September 1965. This order prohibited federal contractors from discriminated against job applicants or employees based on sex, race, color, religion or nation of origin. In 1967, the Age Discrimination in Employment act added [...]
Discrimination at Work – 5 Issues To Be Kept In Mind
By Abhishek Agarwal – There used to be a time when the employers hired and fired workers at their own free will. That practice was abolished with the establishment of laws that supported the workers, and the opportunities grew when Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was coined. The employers are saving their companies by not following [...]
Disability Discrimination Act
By Chris Eden – A little while ago I was called by a man who claimed that he was having difficulty accessing my website and on further investigation it turned out that he was visually impaired. Apparently, and I must admit I was totally unaware of this requirement, all web-sites which offer goods or services [...]
Does Age Discrimination Exist?
By Jan Cullinane – Is There Ageism in the Workforce? Does age discrimination exist? Not legally. The federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), passed in 1967, states, “It shall be unlawful for an employer to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to [...]
