Sentences with phrase «of class discrimination»

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 discrimination.
He also implied that to analyze the issue as if it were solely one of class discrimination was a subterfuge that begged important underlying questions.

Not exact matches

They also hope to certify their case as a class action, presuming that the discrimination they describe affected a lot of other women employees as well.
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.
An employee and a clever plaintiffs» lawyer can always claim that denial was in fact discrimination based on a protected class (provided one exists, of course).
The proposed class - action suit alleges a racist culture at Tesla, unsafe factory conditions, and failure on the part of the company, including CEO Elon Musk personally, to prevent or investigate race - based harassment and discrimination there.
Specifically excepting a legal and medically relevant treatment for one class of employees — women — is discrimination plain and simple.
The allegations include claims that male and female pupils were segregated — often with the female pupils sitting at the back or sides of classes; discrimination against non-Muslim pupils, and restricting the curriculum to comply with Islamic teaching.
Invidious discrimination exists when inherent equals — for example, all human beings — are treated unequally based on sub-categories that bigots assert to reduce the moral status of the disfavored classes, placing them beneath the favored.
The divisiveness may be due to the sense of difference and discrimination as well as of superiority or inferiority of cultures or sub-cultures on the basis of religion, social class or caste.
The current furor, she told me in a recent e-mail, «distracts from real issues of class injustice, racial oppression, and continued discrimination and violence against women, Muslim and non-Muslim.»
It should be apparent without any lengthy argument that race discrimination, any assumptions of class superiority, or cleavages based on a self - righteous pride of national origin must be utterly abhorrent to God.
The argument says that if a body such as a police force, an entering freshman class, country club members, etc. has a disproportionately low representation of any identity group, then discrimination is at work.
One big lesson for me is that issues of racial, gender, cultural or class discrimination are not limited to my own personal beliefs.
Shortly before that, President Obama's Executive Order 13672 added sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes that federal law shields from employment discrimination.
The central point of the Christian Faith is the indissoluble link between God and man, expressed through Christ; man is free to choose either good or evil; God's purpose is to bring all men into the right relationship with himself; and in the teaching of Christ there is neither class distinction, color bar, nor discrimination between the sexes.
We have also become more aware of discrimination with reference to such things as class, age, disability, and left - handedness.
In other words «proper discrimination» has been increasingly to disallow distinction under the law between different classes, or perhaps classifications, of people.
How a middle - class club gotmiddle - class... discrimination... and the rise of clubs operated solely forprofit.
Many feminists are poverty class including Jacqueline S. Homan who was sold into human trafficking as a child and as never been able to pull herself out of deep poverty because of job discrimination.
New York Times Magazine editor Tough profiles an ambitious effort to simultaneously address the seemingly eternal societal problems of poverty, class stratification, educational underachievement and racial discrimination.
Therefore, BWI does not condone silencing, tone policing, or otherwise oppressing marginalized groups, nor does BWI discriminate or permit discrimination by any member of its community against any individual on the basis of age, citizenship status, class, color, disability, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, national origin, parental status, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
The key to understanding the success of Moscow's penetration agents in government ministries, the failures to detect them swiftly and the counter - espionage mistakes in handling them lies in sex discrimination rather than class 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.
Harriet Harman, the Equalities minister, wants a new law to put «the persistent inequality of social class» on the same footing as discrimination on grounds of race, gender, sexuality or disability.
Also at noon, African - American civilian employees of the FDNY announce a civil rights class - action lawsuit seeking sweeping reform of the current system that has permitted discrimination, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
But beyond all this lies an even worse, deep rooted failure of the political class in the fight against discrimination and fear of the «other».
Persons who are protected from discrimination by fair housing laws are referred to as members of the protected classes.
Mitchell Kane, a professor of tax policy at NYU Law School, said courts have basically shut down constitutional challenges to federal tax legislation on grounds of differential treatment across citizens, absent discrimination based on some protected class.
And, in an effort to reverse decades of discrimination against blacks and Latinos, Mr. Cuomo pushed the government - sponsored banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to buy more home loans taken out by poor and working - class borrowers.
In fact, approximately 3 out of 4 individuals support efforts to add body weight as a protected class under Civil Rights laws, and the majority of those surveyed (at least 60 %) are supportive of other policy efforts to address weight discrimination across the nation.
The authors have additionally noticed that there are certain types of discrimination that can be more easily concealed, such as discrimination towards physical appearance, social class and homosexuality.
Meet new people, make new friends, free dating, find partner, free chat, singles site, Men seeking Women, Women seeking Men Group files class action suit against Uber for «discrimination,» lack of wheelchair access
A judge in California has ordered eHarmony and the plaintiffs of a class action discrimination case into mediation.
It has fairly recognisable young teen movie themes, although these don't survive more than a cursory analysis — hazy criticisms of class distinction / discrimination are a bit hard to swallow when the kids of «privileged» parents attend an elite school floating above the clouds.
But beyond «Get Out,» there were many other powerful meditations on relevant issues, be they class («The Florida Project,» «Lady Bird»), gender dynamics («Battle of the Sexes,» «The Beguiled») or cultural discrimination («The Big Sick,» «Beatriz at Dinner»).
At times, it seems to be lionizing her, presenting her as something of a «working class heroine» fighting against discrimination.
Even before we fully know her circumstances, Ashley (Abbie Cornish) introduces herself as a victim of race and class discrimination.
The 18th Parliament of Children adopted in June 10, 2013 a draft law aiming to prevent the facts of violence and discrimination in schools and help students who are victims, presented by a Polynesian class.
My classes have taken on weighty issues of their own choosing: Islamophobia in schools; lower expectations and discrimination experienced by ELL students; and a lack of support to help teen mothers graduate.
He continued, «I think each class at HGSE has a defining quality, and I have come to think of your class as exceptionally big - hearted, in large part because of what I saw of your collective character after the election» — actions which included organizing a solidarity rally, participating in a dean's challenge looking to reduce bullying and discrimination in schools, and creating an art installation titled «Love in the Time of...».
The question assumes, as in the case of a food - standards specialist for the state of Oregon whose job was eliminated amid tensions with her boss, that the worker isn't protected by a union contract or as a member of a group shielded from employment discrimination based on race, sex, or other protected classes.
Describing the school from a self - consciously progressive point of view, the authors toggle between accusations that the school's disparities by race and class are delusory figments of distorted thinking, or that, although objectively real, they are the products of structural racism, class privilege, parental selfishness, and discrimination.
I probably cover Lakewood's morally and fiscally bankrupt schools too often, but this Ocean County school district that enrolls almost entirely Latino and Black low - income students pushes all my education reform buttons: tyranny of the majority (in this case the ultra-Orthodox residents who control the municipal government and the school board); lack of accountability; lack of school choice for poor kids of color but anything goes (at public expense) for children of the ruling class; discrimination against minority special education students.
The bureau indicates a flat fee might eliminate dealers potentially charging higher loan rates to so - called protected classes of borrowers, such as minorities, creating what the government calls a form of discrimination referred to a disparate impact.
A class member may appeal a final decision on an individual (s) claim for relief pursuant to a finding of a class - wide discrimination.
As a class, make a chart of these various issues (racial discrimination, gender discrimination, poverty, etc.), and note where each poem fits.
And would it only apply to those who have benefited from racial discrimination, or to those who have benefited from any form of discrimination - for example, due to their gender, or due to the class or even country they were born into?
All the people at world scale have to raise their voice against this heinous crime of discrimination against lower classes for the society.
At LoanMart we have a dedicated team of employees providing quality services to current and prospective clients without any discrimination based on social class or credit history.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z