Sentences with phrase «such discriminatory acts»
The validation provisions of the NTA validate acts otherwise invalid as a result of the RDA and prescribe the effect that such discriminatory acts will have on native title.
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«Such selective and discriminatory acts will only serve to embolden the radical narratives of extremists and will provide further fuel to the advocates of violence and terrorism,» the group added in the statement.
Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.
The crux of the act is simply this: illegal wage bias (based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability) occurs «when a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted, when a person becomes subject to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, or when a person is affected by application of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, including each time wages, benefits, or other compensation is paid, resulting in whole or in part from such a decision or other practice.»
, there has to be an actual discriminatory act (such as refusing housing or services), it is not enough to express an opinion or use wrong pronouns.
The key substantive sections of the Act are sections 5 to 13 which set out «discriminatory practices» in a number of areas such as «services», «accommodation» and «employment».
It is the ability to act on those beliefs in a discriminatory way, and we say that the government can not condone such discrimination in the name of religion.»
Quoting Paul: «As with hostile work environment sexual harassment claims, individual pay decisions by themselves do not have the obvious discriminatory intent that discrete acts such as terminations or failures to promote do.»
The exemption from rates in para 11 of Sch 5 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (LGFA 1988) in respect of «place of public religious worship» can not apply to places used for religious worship from which the public is excluded; such exclusion is not discriminatory on religious grounds.
To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and to modify the operation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes.
The bill's stated purpose is «to amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes.»
The Tribunal can impose other sanctions such as making available on the first reasonable occasion, the rights, privileges, or opportunities denied as a result of discriminatory practice, and compensatory damages of various forms (a list of possible remedies is enumerated at s. 53 (2) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. H - 6).
31.5 The Chief Commissioner may establish such advisory groups as he or she considers appropriate to advise the Commission about the elimination of discriminatory practices that infringe rights under this Act.
The legislative effect of the ruling has been that a federal government is able to implement racially discriminatory laws under s51 (xxvi) through clear and unambiguous legislation — such as the packages above and the direct references to suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act.
Calling the Affordable Care Act «the greatest advance in women's health in a generation,» Planned Parenthood said the law will provide access to birth control and cancer screenings without co-pays, guaranteed direct access to OB / GYN providers without referrals, and an end to discriminatory practices against women, such as charging women higher premiums and denying coverage for «pre-existing conditions.»
It is necessary to recognise that past acts, historical acts and the effects of these can not be undone... Past acts, however discriminatory, which have resulted in dispossession of Australia's Indigenous people can not be undone, though of course, present and future policies can remedy the effects, the current effects, of such acts.
In my view such a discriminatory procedure, which favours the interests of non-Indigenous over Indigenous interests, should not be adopted unless it is unambiguously required by the Act.
Such assumptions may not be accurate, unfortunately, and could be seen as discriminatory under the Fair Housing Act.