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Tagged with employment discrimination
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How will anyone know if an employer fires an employee for an illegal reason?
From the Wiki article "At-Will Employment":
At-will employment is a term used in U.S. labor law for contractual relationships in which an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any ...
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Can a White Person sue for Discrimination after being Fired for using the N-Word?
After the landmark Bostock v. Clayton County ruling, I am asking for a friend if he has an action against an employer who fired him for using the N-word on 3 occasions as well as uttering "my ...
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In the US what is/are the legal definitions of 'workplace'?
According to this online USA guidance many US states give smokers the same sort of anti-discrimination class as for example pregnant mothers or other groups.
Most states have some laws that protect ...
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Is employment discrimination crime, or tort, or what?
I just learned that, in the US, literally asking certain questions on a job interview (as opposed to making discriminatory decisions based on the answers to those questions) is illegal (as found here ...
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Job interview according to the laws of Washington State, USA
According to the laws of Washington State, USA;
1) Is it legal for a person to be asked their preferred pronouns during an candidate job interview?
2) Is it legal for a company to ask anything that ...
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Can the racial/ethnic makeup of a company be used in a discrimination case?
Suppose a company is made up 100 employees, and that 75 of them are from the same ethnic background or race, say Jewish, or black.
The company is in an industry that has nothing to do with that race, ...
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Is the following nondiscrimination policy itself discriminatory against Christians? [closed]
Country: US
State: Michigan
Situation:
I work for a large employer in Michigan. We have over 10,000 employees total. My employer bans discrimination on the basis of an incredibly long list of ...
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Conflict between a religious belief that accounts for the existence of transgender people vs. one that doesn't
Country: US
State: Michigan
Example:
Ann belongs to a denomination that accepts the existence of transgender people as what they claim they are. Ann starts a company that grows to over 25 employees,...
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What are the limits of religious freedom in the workplace?
Federally in the US, only race, sex, and religion are protected classes, i.e. it's illegal to make employment decisions (hiring/firing/salary/promotion/etc.) on the basis of a worker's race, sex, or ...
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My religion discourages use of direct deposit, but my state allows employers to mandate direct deposit. How should I navigate this situation? [closed]
Banking entities have been actively marketing to businesses in my state, attempting to get as many of them as possible to abandon traditional pay-stub-and-check payroll in favor of debit cards the ...
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How is the EEOC "four-fifths rule" discrimination rule applied when rates are small?
The U.S. Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in their UNIFORM GUIDELINES ON EMPLOYEE SELECTION PROCEDURES specifies:
A selection rate for any race, sex, or ethnic group which is less ...
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Terminated for significant other's religion [closed]
I want to be a bit vague on specific details and names as this is an active legal issue but in the state of Utah I was terminated a few months back after a couple years of employment for my ...
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ADA and reasonable accommodations
https://www.eeoc.gov/facts/jobapplicant.html
Q: Is it a reasonable accommodation to request to remove all the oral interviews for a candidate programmer who has, for instance, social phobia? Or the ...
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Big Data - Analysis from the entire population - Disparate impact
I am reading
Barocas, S., & Selbst, A. D. (2016). Big Data’s Disparate Impact. California Law Review. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2477899
Among other things, the article talks about the ...
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Concealing Medical Conditions from Employer
If an employer asks an employee or prospective employee to fill out and sign a health declaration form (very common in the medical field) like this.
If the employee is afraid that revealing their ...
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