Sentences with phrase «victims of discrimination based»

being a victim of discrimination based on your race, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical conditions, disability, etc. at your workplace

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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.

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.

S. 766, the Paycheck Fairness Act, «to provide more effective remedies of victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex»

Therefore, if a victim of discrimination took two years to find another job, based on the new human rights principles, a judge could award her two years» wages, and her legal fees, whereas that same individual may previously only have been entitled to a few months» pay.

Our law office is based in Swansea, just outside of St. Louis, but we represent people throughout Southern Illinois who have been injured in an accident or been the victims of employment discrimination or workplace harassment.

Some, however — like discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, marital status, or status as victim of domestic violence — are only protected by state law in Oregon.

We regularly represent individuals and entities who have been the victim of harassment, coercion, intimidation, physical violence or discrimination based upon age, disability, medical condition, national origin, sex, race, ethnicity, or religion, as well as those whose constitutional rights have been violated by the government, the police, employers or others.

In an important ruling by the Appellate Division from earlier this year, the court clarified that a workplace discrimination victim's civil damages award should not have been reduced based solely upon his receipt of unemployment benefits.

If you have been the victim of unlawful employment discrimination based on your sexual orientation, we can help you.

In Alfie's case the argument was advanced on the basis that his parents were victims of discrimination contrary to Article 14 ECHR.