Sentences with phrase «additional employment discrimination»

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Since the inception of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and several additional anti-discriminatory laws such as the Equal Pay Act (EPA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the more recent Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA)-- diversity should be embraced by all organizations who employ workers.

The field of employment discrimination law continues to expand to cover new forms of discrimination and additional employment practices.

(i) harassment will no longer have to be «on the ground of» sex, but merely «related to» it; (ii) harassment will apply to a witness of the opposite sex to the recipient of the behaviour; (iii) an employer will be liable for harassment for failing to take reasonable steps to protect an employee from repeated harassment by third parties; (iv) pregnancy or maternity leave discrimination will no longer require a comparator; (vi) it will be contrary to the Act to deprive a woman of non-contractual bonuses in respect of the two - week period of compulsory maternity leave; and (vii) the same claims of discrimination in relation to terms and conditions of employment will be available in relation to additional maternity leave as in relation to ordinary maternity leave.