Sentences with phrase «against discrimination for»

There are also equal opportunities specialists at Uppsala University who promote the work for equal opportunities and against discrimination for students and staff.

During the Equality Act 2010's passage through Parliament, we worked closely with a range of organisations as well as our supporters in Parliament to have amendments made to the Equality Bill which sought to increase protection against discrimination for humanists and others, and to minimise the exceptions from the law granted to religious organisations.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.»

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

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.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a legal brief in an appeals court case, arguing against workplace discrimination protection for employees who are gay.

Opponents, meanwhile, claim it paves the way for discrimination, especially against gays and lesbians.

Keala Lusk, a former Uber software engineer, wrote on Medium that during her time at Uber she saw «malicious fights for power, interns repeatedly putting in over 100 hours a week but only getting paid for 40, discrimination against women, and prejudice against the transgender community.»

While supporters say the law protects small business owners» religious freedom, critics say it will allow for discrimination against gay customers and drive business out of the state.

The Paycheck Fairness Act pending before Senate «punishes employers for retaliating against workers who share wage information, puts the justification burden on employers as to why someone is paid less and allows workers to sue for punitive damages of wage discrimination.»

It is the policy of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to provide equal opportunity in employment throughout the corporation for all qualified applicants and employees without discrimination against any person because of a person's race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex / gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions and breast feeding), national origin, ancestry, gender identity, gender expression, legally - protected medical condition, physical or mental disability, age, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.

«ACT for America has never, and will never, tolerate any bias, discrimination, or violence against anyone, based on their religion, gender, race, or political persuasion,» Act for America told Newsweek in a statement.

More broadly, economist Douglas Irwin notes how the 1930 tariff «was very damaging from the standpoint of U.S. commerce» because it sparked tit - for - tat trade discrimination against the U.S. and «diverted existing trade away.»

Sports Illustrated could have chosen Colin Kaepernick, who protested discrimination against blacks by refusing to stand for the National Anthem.

Employment practices liability insurance, or EPLI as you may have heard it called, provides protection to companies who have employees against claims by current or former employees for things like discrimination, wrongful termination, or sexual harassment.

«While these serious allegations against XPO Logistics do not involve Verizon employees, Verizon has zero tolerance for discrimination and sexual harassment, and we expect our suppliers to abide by these standards,» Varettoni said in an emailed statement to USA TODAY.

The ACLU is a powerhouse in advocating for the rights of immigrants, campaigning against discrimination and challenging state and federal laws.

Freedom of religion and freedom of speech should mean there is no discrimination for or against a group because of what it is teaching.

You don't have to believe in intelligent design to see how there is harassment and discrimination against people for their beliefs.

For aside from those instances in which hiring goals are ordered by a court subsequent to a finding of illegal discrimination, and with the purpose of providing relief for those discriminated against, the use of differential standards for the hiring of blacks and whites acknowledges the inability of blacks to perform up to the white standaFor aside from those instances in which hiring goals are ordered by a court subsequent to a finding of illegal discrimination, and with the purpose of providing relief for those discriminated against, the use of differential standards for the hiring of blacks and whites acknowledges the inability of blacks to perform up to the white standafor those discriminated against, the use of differential standards for the hiring of blacks and whites acknowledges the inability of blacks to perform up to the white standafor the hiring of blacks and whites acknowledges the inability of blacks to perform up to the white standard.

The campaigner also said that if the discrimination decision against Ashers Bakery was upheld, it would have significant implications for other businesses.

I want to scream «NO, it's about discrimination for the groups you care about against the rest of humanity!»

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

God's «morals» come in handy for Christian h0mophobes looking for an EXCUSE for their prejudice, but are ignored when any discussions come up that are embarrassing like support for slavery and discrimination against the handicapped.

For example, the general support of the working classes for the Reform Bill of 1832 gains in significance when placed against their bitterly disappointed aspirations for voting rights and their increased awareness of class discriminatiFor example, the general support of the working classes for the Reform Bill of 1832 gains in significance when placed against their bitterly disappointed aspirations for voting rights and their increased awareness of class discriminatifor the Reform Bill of 1832 gains in significance when placed against their bitterly disappointed aspirations for voting rights and their increased awareness of class discriminatifor voting rights and their increased awareness of class discrimination.

It has severely limited affirmative action as a remedy for past discrimination against minorities, even though the post-Civil War Congress that passed the Fourteenth Amendment also enacted race - targeted benefits for black soldiers, schools and relief agencies.

Therefore we call for an end to all religious and civil discrimination against any person based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.

«The goal for me has always been to shed the light on the appalling and unacceptable discrimination against LGBT students at these private religious institutions throughout California,» said Lara, according to the Times.

In the UK, a priority must be more savings for pensions and an end to discrimination against marriage in the tax and benefits systems.

CNN: 2 communities linked to polygamous sect sued for alleged religious discrimination Two communities dominated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints and its jailed leader Warren Jeffs have been sued by the federal government for alleged religious discrimination against citizens who don't belong to the polygamous sect.

What is wrong, what is unnatural, what is immoral and what is gross is intolerance and discrimination against fellow human beings for their sexual orientation and active pursuit of preventing loving and committed homosexual couples from legally being married.

Such a sign is a call to transform national and international social, economic, and political structures so that they may provide the conditions required for the development for all, without exclusion and discrimination against any person in any circumstance.

Most civilizations (let's take America for example while it is not a civilization, had segregation and discrimination against Blacks and Colored people until the 60s).

I wonder how many decades will pass before Chad's ilk adopt the same penitence for their discrimination against the LGBT.

As a society, we'd crossed some threshold where the benefits — a good place to play golf, a nice pool for the kids, business contacts, a sense of status and belonging — had to be weighed against the recognition that racial discrimination was evil.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

It has, however, been distorted into a weapon of discrimination used against the poor, who tend to show up for trial as readily as their more affluent neighbors.

They are all for discrimination against those who hold to the traditional view of marriage on which Western Civilisation has been based for the past 1,500 years.

So difficult is the situation becoming that the European Parliament and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have now recognized the trend and have held workshops on the subject of intolerance and discrimination against Christians.

To compare so - called discrimination against atheists to what African - Americans have gone through for centuries is ridiculous.

On Christian ethical grounds, I would recommend that all laws making criminal offenses of acts between consenting homosexual adults be repealed and that there be no blanket job discrimination against homosexual persons of either sex; further, I contend that exclusion of homosexual persons from churches (unless they are pushed out for a reason that would apply to heterosexuals in identical fashion) is untenable.