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Is awarding a day off for women employees on 8 March a discrimination against the male employees?
Early this year I joined a new company. As part of the benefits they give to their employees is included a day off, paid by the company, to all female employees for the 8 of March because of the ...
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Allowable Discrimination For Jobs
Just lately I realized that anti-discrimination/equal opportunity legislation only applies to proscribed categories of discrimination grounds, e.g. race, ethnicity, gender, orientation, age, etc.
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Exploratory: discrimination against character trait
What is the rationale for the scope of what EEOC prohibits discrimination against?
More precisely, I have been fired for a trait of character (pessimism) that seems to me to be as much an integral &...
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Pregnancy discrimination. Wife asked (but not forced) to quit job. What further actions can we take? [closed]
Not long after my wife informed her Lead she was pregnant, the Lead sat her down and encouraged her to consider quitting in order to be with the family. We plan to go to the HR department about this ...
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Can my boss promise a job to someone before posting it?
I work in California. I'm due for a promotion for a supervisory role. Before the more senior employees were considered and one was promoted.
I got word that my manager promised the job to my coworker ...
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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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Can an employer legally require a female employee to wear a bra?
There seems to be some discussion of this elsewhere on the web, but it's scant on citations to actual regulations or cases.
To narrow the scope, let's say that the female employee dresses so that the ...
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Is it legal to deny a priest a job because he's atheist
Hypothetically, if you had an Atheist looking to make money by becoming a priest, would the church be legally allowed to deny him the job because of his religion (or lack of), assuming he's still ...
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I think I'm being unfairly punished in my workplace - do I have legal recourse?
I have suffered what I think is unreasonable, prejudiced punishment at my (industrial) job. Is there any legal recourse for me to defend against this?
I'm in Manitoba, Canada.
My superior is unfairly ...
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Conflict of Interest for Private Consulting While Working at Company in Same Industry?
I have plans to branch out into private consulting in the field I am currently employed in. Several exisiting clients have approached me expressing strong interest in working with me privately, based ...
