Sentences with phrase «against discrimination against»

This federal law provides protection against discrimination against people based on sex, color, national origin, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Up in Boston, a female associate, Kamee Verdrager, filed a discrimination complaint at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination against her law firm, Mintz Levin.

Ethan Hawke has praised Madonna for her boldness in speaking out against discrimination against Gypsies, words that provoked boos from thousands of fans at her concert in Romania.

He could pass a DREAM Act, raise the age of criminality in the state, legislate against discrimination against those who express their gender differently and encode a woman's right to an abortion into the state's health law.

Fighting against the discrimination against atheists, REALLY?

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Rep. Brian Bosma, the speaker of the state House, said that the law does not allow discrimination against «any segment of the Hoosier community.»

Outten & Golden have also represented employees in gender discrimination lawsuits against Goldman Sachs and Microsoft.

She said «all claims of racial discrimination against Ms. Slater are completely false.»

Catherine Lhamon, the Department of Education's assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement that the government would «vigorously enforce Title IX's prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex, including gender identity, in every applicable school.»

Oakland's decision to drive equity into the marijuana legislation assures minority ownership and seeks to compensate for discrimination against those affected by earlier laws.

The consensus among authors is that the main causes are gender bias, prejudice and discrimination against women — an answer that is as dismaying as it is simple.

So if this is discrimination, it's discrimination against those who are heavy, not those who are fat.

There's been a lot of buzz around minimizing the tech industry's discrimination against women.

The bank admitted that the controversial Wilders — who was convicted of discrimination against Moroccans at a political rally in 2015 — could become the next prime minister.

«In start - up companies, it's all about «who do I trust» and sometimes nepotism will come in,» Fraedrich says, and family - run businesses have to be especially vigilant against an ethical lapse that could lead at best to employee dissatisfaction and at worst to a discrimination suit.

Several experts questioned whether the practice is in keeping with the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, which prohibits bias against people 40 or older in hiring or employment.

Here are the states where you can still be fired for being gay because they don't have explicit laws that prevent discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace.

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon is introducing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would ban workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, Bloomberg reports.

Make sure you're current on the new EEOC guidelines prohibiting discrimination against workers with caregiver responsibilities.

The company began the response, released via blog post on its website, by stating it was «absolutely against any form of discrimination, harassment, or unfair treatment of any kind.

Washington state argued that it violated constitutional protections against religious discrimination.

During recent decades, the federal laws against sex discrimination have made it easier for women to enter the workplace.

In addition to federal laws against gender - based discrimination, the American With Disabilities Act can be used to protect against the unlawful treatment of caregivers.

The state of Washington became the first state to pass its own net neutrality legislation after the Federal Communications Commission last year repealed its own rules barring discrimination against online sites and content.

The goal of diversity programs is a laudable one, namely to increase diversity as a way of fighting back against systemic discrimination.

In 29 states, it «s still not explicitly illegal to discriminate against both employees and prospective hires based on sexual orientation — and 32 states allow workplace discrimination based on gender identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign, America's largest civil rights organization.

Wheeler's decision to stick with the voluntary protocol by stepping down when a new president is elected likely spells a quick death for his major communications policies, including net neutrality rules that prohibit discrimination against Internet sites and services.

«This time, however, the order prohibits discrimination against gay Americans, as opposed to the 1965 order that prohibited discrimination against African - Americans,» says Kaplan.

By making it clear that discrimination against LGBT employees is prohibited, employers will better position themselves to recruit not only the estimated three percent of the population that identifies as LGBT, but also other candidates, particularly millennials, who expect to work in a diverse and inclusive workplace,» Phillis said in emailed comments.

And it can use the legal argument that sexual orientation and gender expression fit into the prohibition against discrimination based on sex, says Mark T. Phillis, a Littler Mendelson shareholder and co-chair of its diversity and inclusion council.

«Though the vast majority of Americans think it is wrong and should be against the law, [most state] laws do not protect the LGBT workforce from this kind of discrimination,» Peter Romer - Friedman, an attorney with Cohen Milstein, a law - firm in Washington, D.C., says.

And those changes mean discrimination against some minorities is a real danger.

What if it can be used against the company in a wrongful - termination lawsuit or an age - discrimination case?

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), in the absence of a specific prohibition against discrimination for being gay, has extended its enforcement in a similar way.

More than half of all states have laws that protect smokers against discrimination in hiring practices, according to the American Lung Association.

In an anonymous survey conducted in Alberta at the time, anxious employers predicted heightened workplace tensions and potential discrimination against young job seekers.

It was delivered in the summer of 1963 during the March on Washington, a rally for civil rights and against discrimination.

of all states have laws that protect smokers against discrimination in hiring practices, according to the American Lung Association.

Even if the religious freedom laws aren't intended to allow discrimination against LGBT people, the point is, with the state RFRA laws it's possible.

While many states are so - called at - will states, where employers can terminate freely for all sorts of reasons, anyone who has ever hired and fired knows you need a full paper trail documenting poor performance to shield yourself against a host of workplace - discrimination or wrongful - termination claims.

And they have also tended to allow religious excuses to free people from certain legal claims, such as might arise in jurisdictions with broad protections against discrimination, including minorities such as LGBT people.

But my point is we should be empowering families to make the choices they think are best for their kids, and that should entail ending discrimination in the tax code against single - income, two - parent families.»

«We take this matter very seriously,» a ZocDoc spokeswoman tells Inc. «As a company, we pride ourselves on being a great place to work, and we have a long - standing policy against any forms of unlawful harassment or discrimination.»

In two cases against the U.S. Postal Service in 2011, the EEOC ruled that gender stereotyping claims are indeed sex - discrimination claims.

There's also an amendment for workplace protections against discrimination that would penalize defense contractors.

In fact, in December 2017 a Virginia district court judge ruled against a female plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation against defense contractor BAE Systems, in part, because she «did not take advantage of BAE's harassment reporting procedures of which she was well aware.»

What was a response to Airbnb's own discrimination problem is being spun as Airbnb's protest against discrimination.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Most states have implemented laws against gender discrimination, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects women at the federal level.