Sentences with phrase «by discrimination law»

Where cosmetic surgery goes wrong, in a serious case it is possible that an employee may become disabled and would be protected by discrimination law.

This is particularly true when firms are bound by discrimination laws and may feel compelled to accommodate a candidate who insists on work - life balance (particularly one who is pregnant) to avoid a lawsuit.

Not exact matches

The Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has «exceeded its legal authority» by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.

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.

Signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1972, Title IX prohibits gender discrimination in any federally funded education program or activity, including universities.

Despite that reversal, UPS maintains that its denial of Young's light duty request was lawful at the time and that its policy change is voluntary and not required by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.The Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief supporting UPS, calling attention to companies that offer pregnant employees «more than what federal law compels them to provide.»

The only problem is that it's still legal to fire LGBT employees in 28 states where such workers aren't covered by state laws that protect various minorities from discrimination on the job, as well as in housing and public accommodations.

Legal experts said Berkshire Hathaway's mortgage companies were carrying out the very practices outlawed by the Fair Housing Act, a 50 - year - old law that banned racial discrimination in lending, by locating their branches in white neighborhoods, employing mortgage consultants who - from their websites - appear to be overwhelmingly white and lending mostly to white borrowers.

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.

This Act prohibited price discrimination by retailers among producers and by producers among retailers.63 Its aim was to prevent conglomerates and large companies from using their buyer power to extract crippling discounts from smaller entities, and to keep large manufacturers and retailers from teaming up against rivals.64 Like laws banning predatory pricing, the prohibition against price discrimination effectively curbed the power of size.

«It sounds like another effort by this administration to really empower employers to hide pay discrimination under the rug,» Emily Martin, an attorney at the National Women's Law Center, told Bloomberg Law.

Despite growing calls for legalization across the globe and in the US, many marijuana users and businesses are regularly targeted by large media organizations and subject to discrimination based on outdated and misguided anti-marijuana laws.

Four years after the BHA complained to the European Commission (EC) alleging that UK law breaks European law in allowing widespread discrimination in employment by faith schools, and two years after the EC took the matter up as the subject of a formal investigation, the Commission has decided that there is no breach of current legislation.

The proposed law, submitted by MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz), would end the de facto discrimination between secular and religious Jews who adopt children.

PRESS RELEASE: Blogger loses will to write / live after being asked to weigh in on proposed gay discrimination laws — by Kristen Howerton (pretty much sums up how I feel, too, but she's clever)

Johnson reviews noncombatancy and discrimination as they have been articulated and reaffirmed by official religious statements, scholars and international law since then.

This campaign was won by slogans: «Make gra (Irish «love») the law,» «Discrimination damages lives,» etc., and the stories mentioned at the beginning of this article were strong appeals to emotion based on the desires of one's gay son / daughter / brother / sister / cousin / connection for normalization and acceptance.

After Indian Independence, untouchability and caste discrimination were abolished by law.

Race AND sexual orientation are both protected from discrimination by the laws in this country.

Under previous law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the statute of limitations on such suits ran out 180 days after the alleged discrimination occurred, even if the victims never knew about it.

If women are restricted as to what medicine is covered by their insurance provided by their employer but men aren't, that is discrimination and is against the law.

I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes with it....

Like most UN human rights treaties, its implementation by state parties is overseen by a compliance committee, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which issues «General Comments» meant to guide our understanding of the provisions contained in the treaty, and which conducts periodic reviews of state parties, instructing them how to change their laws in order to comply better with the treaty, as understood by the Committee.

Soooo... by that logic Peter all laws barring discrimination or hate crimes should be removed... Let's go back to the time when women and black people can't vote because the ruling party in their state (like mine, Arizona) says their flavor of bigotry is ok.

Discrimination is forbidden on the grounds of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.

Arsenal could file a law suit against UEFA for discrimination by allowing flares at European stadiums in league games.

That is prohibitied by law and would be discrimination.

Any defamation of the country and the nation, any instigation to a war of aggression, to national, racial, class or religious hatred, any incitement to discrimination, territorial separatism, or public violence, as well as any obscene conduct contrary to morality shall be prohibited by law.

Four years after the British Humanist Association (BHA) complained to the European Commission (EC) alleging that UK law breaks European law in allowing widespread discrimination in employment by «faith» schools, and two years after the Commission took the matter up as the subject of a formal investigation, the Commission has decided that there is in fact no breach of the relevant legislation.

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

As Avi pointed out the Supreme Court has ruled against discrimination based on race but racial discrimination is protected by federal law and would have been illegal even outside of the primaries.

Cuomo, at a dinner given by the gay rights group Pride Agenda in October 2015, expanded the parameters of the state's Human Rights Law, which prevents discrimination based on the sex of a person, to include transgender people.

All but five of the cases were brought by women alleging «gender discrimination, discrimination based on sexual orientation, sexual harassment, hostile work environment, and / or sexual assault,» according to the records obtained under the state Freedom of Information Law.

Avella's own office was the subject of sexual harassment and discrimination claims with expense records that indicate the state Senate paid a Manhattan law firm $ 22,444 in taxpayer funds earlier this year to investigate allegations of harassment made by a female member of Avella's district office staff.

The attorney general's office records do not break down the cases by specific categories of offense because they are all related to harassment, discrimination and abuse based on gender and all were brought under the same federal civil rights law.

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

«The advertisement violates federal and state civil rights law that prohibit discrimination in hiring on the basis of national origin,» reads a letter signed by assistant A.G. Diane Lucas.

The UK leaving the European Union could put some protection of important rights at risk: there is a danger that labour rights and protections against discrimination in UK law, which are underpinned by EU rules, could be watered down by parliament in future.

«We believe it would be unreasonable, unnecessary and unjust discrimination against Catholics for the government to insist that if they wish to continue to work with local authorities, Catholic adoption agencies must act against the teaching of the church and their own consciences by being obliged in law to provide such a service.»

Your responsibilities under disability discrimination law People with cancer are covered by the Disability Discrdiscrimination law People with cancer are covered by the Disability DiscriminationDiscrimination Act.

In February 2018, Schneiderman brought a civil rights lawsuit against The Weinstein Company, alleging the company «repeatedly broke New York law by failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination.»

Persons who are protected from discrimination by fair housing laws are referred to as members of the protected classes.

One aspect of this discrimination was recently highlighted by LibDem MP David Laws.

«As alleged in our complaint, The Weinstein Company repeatedly broke New York law by failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

He should learn how to abide by our laws that reject employment discrimination against people because of sex, color, race nationality, religion, sexual preference, etc..

Few activists were mollified by ESPA's statement that a new directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo — interpreting existing state human rights law's sex discrimination and disability discrimination protections to cover transgender New Yorkers — amounted to «securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority, protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations.»

Nadler is the chief author of the Uniting American Families Act, which seeks to eliminate discrimination in the immigration laws by permitting permanent partners of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents to obtain lawful permanent resident status in the same manner as spouses of citizens and lawful permanent residents.

«As alleged in our complaint, The Weinstein Company repeatedly broke New York law by failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination,» state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in court papers filed against Weinstein and the company.

And two weeks ago, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Weinstein Co., stating that the studio «repeatedly broke New York law by failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination.»

Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination based on gender, prohibited by the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, and companies can not exempt themselves from the law by passing resolutions prohibiting the use of corporate dollars to pay damages to victims of discrimination.