Sentences with phrase «against discrimination on»

The provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act don't apply to most residential housing, which are covered by the Fair Housing Act's prohibition against discrimination on the basis of handicaps.

In Australia, protections against discrimination on a number of grounds including race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin, are provided through the Racial Discrimination Act 1973 (Cth)(RDA).

As the SCC noted in TWU, the charter values which protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (or race or gender) do not necessarily override those values favouring religious freedom, they must be balanced against one another.

The European Court of Justice adopted a different approach however and held that: «It is important to protect all natural persons against discrimination on grounds of racial or ethnic origin.

The ECJ confirmed that the Directive could apply to Coleman's case (Case C - 303 / 06), [2008] All ER (D) 245 (Jul)-- and it is now clear that UK law should offer protection to an employed carer against discrimination on grounds of her child's disability.

Article 14, which protects against discrimination on the basis of age, amongst other characteristics, is not a «free - standing» right.

Then he tried to file a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission for discrimination by his employer, and was informed that the Individual's Rights Protection Act (IRPA) did not protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

The Equality Act 2010 protects against discrimination on the grounds of disability, and that includes mental health.

The protections afforded against discrimination on the basis of familial status shall apply to any person who is pregnant or is in the process of securing legal custody of any individual who has not attained the age of 18 years.

EEO requirements protect against discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

In this respect, the law shall prohibit any discrimination and guarantee to all persons equal and effective protection against discrimination on any ground such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

the protection of shareholders against discrimination on the ground of their exemption, and external supervision of the process by someone like the Registrar of Companies.

The justice and education departments said in a joint statement late on Wednesday that they «withdrew guidance for educational institutions, issued in 2015 and 2016, that took the position that the prohibitions in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and implementing regulations against discrimination on the basis of sex require access to sex - segregated facilities on the basis of gender identity rather than biological sex.»

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects against discrimination on the basis of sex.

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.»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

«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.»

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.»

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.»

In its tweet, IBM said that it believes the new law will lead to discrimination against «people based on marriage status, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression.»

Nor should you insert religion into your political speech, as Title VII and many state laws protects against discrimination based on religion.

Researchers say the Williams Institute findings on workplace discrimination are consistent with other 2010 and 2011 studies, which show a continuing pattern of discrimination against lesbian, gay, and bisexual employees.

Cook also brought up Apple's fight against workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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.»

But US companies have complex relationships with the Chinese market; they complain about discrimination and over-regulation but they want access, so they don't support actions against the Chinese government on trade and investment.

The Ohio laws against discrimination require that all creditors make credit equally available to all creditworthy customers, and that credit reporting agencies maintain separate credit histories on each individual upon request.

Notice to Ohio Residents: The Ohio laws against discrimination require that all creditors make credit equally available to all credit worthy customers, and that credit reporting agencies maintain separate credit histories on each individual upon request.

«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.

Yet the 13f lives on (it's Section 13f of the Securities Exchange Act, legislation expressly prohibiting discrimination against issuers).

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Many aligned on the left will see both of these as «making history,» finally striking a prophetic blow against the tyrannies of heteronormativity, discrimination, and the abuse of mother earth.

prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

On Christianity, morality is whatever you want it to be like supporting discrimination against women or not.

I have heard believers den.igrate my friends because of their natural se.xual orientation, and have heard politicians try to legislate discrimination against women and gays based on their religion.

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

CNN: Split ruling on discrimination against UK Christians A British Christian woman suffered religious discrimination when British Airways told her not to wear a visible cross over her uniform, a top European court ruled Tuesday.

In fact, they are the ones ascribing to an ideology — merely the most recent of many in human history — that attempts to rationalize discrimination and oppression against some of us based on subjective criteria, this time with victims the least able to defend themselves.

«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 contrast, last week — in an unprecedented compromise — Utah passed two bills: one banning discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people; and on protecting the rights of those who object to same - sex marriage on religious grounds.

Historically, California's higher - education law, which includes requirements against discrimination based on sexual orientation, sex, and gender identity, has had an exemption allowing a religious college to follow policies based on its religious tenets.

On any occasion of discrimination against or cruelty towards Jews — whether individual or collective — he was, instinctively, firmly on the Jewish sidOn any occasion of discrimination against or cruelty towards Jews — whether individual or collective — he was, instinctively, firmly on the Jewish sidon the Jewish side.

How are you going to explain to him why you didn't support slavery like he does or discrimination against women like he does or discrimination against the handicapped like he did or (hopefully) not beating your children with rods like he insists on?

«The police has to take notice, because it wasn't a long time ago that the world did not take notice of what was going on in Nazi Germany, and they allowed things to happen, discrimination against Jews,» Brooklyn Assemblyman Joseph Lentol told NY1.

This became painfully clear in 1996 when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the Alaska Supreme Court's Swanner decision, which held that the state's interest in preventing discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples is sufficiently great that it trumps the objections of landlords who believe they are forbidden by God to permit «fornication» on their property.

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.

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»