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Tagged with employment discrimination
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What if someone goes on protected leave and their employer thus realizes they don't need them?
Say that Ash works for Big Co. and goes on some kind of legally protected leave (FMLA leave, parental leave, etc.) because of some protected characteristic (such as having acquired a disability and/or ...
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Is it illegal to restrict types of shifts available to women?
The scenario I'm imagining is a part-time job, where there's no sex discrimination in the actual hiring based on sex, but the type (and possibly) quantity of shifts available is restricted by sex. ...
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Q: Age discrimintation?
Q: Age discrimination?
Can a federal employer post a job opening without mentioning anything about age requirement (between the ages of X-Y at the start of the position)? Adding equal opportunity ...
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Are anti-piercing (like a nose ring) rules by employer sueable?
I suppose employers can enforce dress codes, but they also can't obviously discriminate against people who have piercings or tattoos. So, what's the line here? If an employer requests an employee to ...
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When are companies allowed to discriminate based on age, sex, race, religion, sexuality, etc.? [duplicate]
I'm pretty sure that, at least in California, there are anti-discrimination laws in place, and you can't just not hire someone because they belong to X protected class.
But on the other hand, there ...
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Religion is a "protected class" in California. Does that extend to things like homophobia/transphobia due to religion?
In California, I'm pretty sure employers aren't allowed to discriminate based on religion (e.g. you can't not hire someone just because they're Jewish). In other words, religion is a "protected ...
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Can an employee sue their employer for retaliation in the United States even if the employee didn't report the discrimination to their employer first?
Suppose an employee, Jane, works for a company in the United States and experiences discrimination or harassment from a supervisor or coworker. Jane is afraid to report the behavior to her employer ...
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Is there a prohibition on asking whether someone has historically been arrested on job applications?
It is common knowledge that many companies ask whether or not someone has been convicted of a felony on job applications. However, as a matter of curiosity, since someone arrested but found not guilty ...
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Does the Civil Rights Act prohibit "unnecessary" college degree requirements?
Many jobs require applicants to have a college degree, when the skills developed at college are not necessary to do the job, and the degree is not required to be in any particular field.
In Griggs v. ...
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Can an employer make employment decisions based on who you live with?
This question is inspired by a question on Workplace Stack Exchange in which an employee of a German research institute was told by their boss's secretary:
Hey, we pay you one of the top salaries in ...
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How can I legally avoid recruiting a specific nationality/ethnicity?
Suppose I have a tech company and I don't want to recruit people of a specific nationality (say, Hungarian) or ethnicity (say, East Indian).
Is there any legal way to do that?
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Can English accent be part of discrimination?
Suppose, a tech company in the USA uses AI software to test if a candidate has a certain accent (e.g. standard American accent, Southern British accent, etc.). The candidate has to attain a certain ...
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Mandating belief in an unsupported empirical claim under UK employment law
Is the following scenario proscribed by UK law:
An employer mandates that all employees complete an online learning activity. This includes an educational document followed by a multiple choice quiz ...
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Are individuals who identify as non-human animals members of a protected class?
This question is inspired by the following question over on Academia.SE: Should students' nonhuman identity be taken seriously in classroom settings?
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ...
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Medical marijuana patient protection from drug test: actual effectiveness of the law?
I'm under the impression that in Pennsylvania, medical marijuana users are protected from employer discrimination:
No employer may discharge, threaten, refuse to hire or otherwise discriminate or ...
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