Hiring and Employment Discrimination

Employment discrimination happens when a job seeker or an employee is treated unfavorably because of his or her race, skin color, national origin, gender, disability, religion, or age.

Workplace discrimination occurs when an individual is adversely discriminated against due to any number of factors. These types of discrimination include biased practices based on personal characteristics including age, race, and gender.

Employment discrimination happens when an employee is treated unfavorably because of his or her race, skin color, national origin, gender, disability, religion, or age. It is illegal to discriminate in any facet of employment, so workplace discrimination extends beyond hiring and firing.

If you are an employee or a job seeker and believe that you have been the target of unlawful discrimination, it's important to file a complaint with the EEOC as soon as possible. Here's how to file an employment discrimination claim.

Affirmative action in hiring is when race, ethnicity, disabilities, military background, socioeconomic status, and/or gender are considered when making hiring decision as a means to provide equal employment opportunity.

Suggestions and strategies for handling workplace age discrimination.

If you are an American with a disability, it's important to be aware of how the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) act impacts applicants for employment.

It is illegal to discriminate based on race, religion, gender, or national original when hiring.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it unlawful to discriminate in hiring, discharge, promotion, referral, and other facets of employment, on the basis of gender, color, race, religion, or national origin.

A hostile work environment is one in which unwelcome comments or conduct based on sex, race or other legally protected characteristics unreasonably interferes with an employee’s work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment.

Through the Immigration and Nationality Act, employers who are hiring, discharging, or recruiting or referring for a fee, cannot discriminate because of national origin against U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and authorized aliens.

The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) protects the job rights of those who voluntarily or involuntarily leave employment positions to partake in military service.

Overview of pregnancy and employment, including interview advice, when to tell your employer, and what to do if you have been discriminated against.

Sexual harassment occurs in the workplace when unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and/or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature affects an individual's employment or work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment.

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The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 makes it unlawful for contractors and subcontractors with the Federal government to discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities.

Job seekers are reporting age discrimination beginning as early as the mid-thirties. How can this be addressed? What options are there for those of us considered "old" by hiring managers and companies?

The Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA) contains affirmative action provisions that forbid job discrimination.