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Laws prohibiting discrimination at the workplace
Introduction
The law relating to discrimination at the workplace in the United States has been derived and originated from the common law. These laws were imposed to prohibit discrimination on the specified protected class or certain characterized categories. The constitution of the United States also prohibits discrimination held at the workplace by the government of federal and state against their employees in the public sector. The discrimination is prohibited by the federal law in the numerous areas involving evaluation for the job, at recruitment, training sessions, policies related to promotion and in many more concerned areas.
The civil rights act of 1964, states that the federal law provides the employees or the public with the wide protection against the harassment or discrimination faced by them in the present law. Along with these law states laws also emphasize other addition classes or categories and prohibit discrimination on such additional class or the employees. It is stated in the clause under the federal law that either the employer or any key managerial personal cannot discriminate or harass the employee on the basis of their race, age, gender, sex, religion, disability ( whether being physical or mental) or on any such factor which is having no relation with his performance or his job. Some of these factors are explained below:
Age discrimination
The Federal Age Discrimination and Employment Act prohibits or fo
ids the act of discrimination which is solely based on the age of the employee, but deals with such cases where the victim is above the age of 40 years (Marchiondo, Gonzales, et.al.,2016). Connecticut general statutes relate and fo
id the act of discrimination, or where the decision is made on the basis that employee is old or young.
This law prohibits all the acts based on hiring or firing the employees on the basis of their age. In addition to this, this law also prohibits the actions which are discriminatory on the basis of the age of the employee like harassment or torture. Also, extra precautions are being taken that, if the employer is warned well in advance regarding the acts related to harassment and discrimination, and even then also such activities are undertaken in the precincts, then the employer will be held responsible for the hostile workplace and suitable punishment will be given.
Race discrimination
The Connecticut Fair Employment Practice Act fo
ids and prohibits the employer to take such decisions that are discriminatory on the part of the employees. The decision may relate to...