Employee Discrimination In The Workplace

With this law, individuals can not be treated based on their sexuality, however, there is still a chance that they may experience harassment or discrimination within the workforce/place. Safety and Security There is sill a huge issue about keeping individuals in the GLBTI community away from emotional or physical violence. As a result of their sexual orientation, there is a high number of violence towards gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities. They are still involved in hate-crimes whether is verbal abuse, or threatening emails/texts/messages.

Nationwide, 14% of all hate crimes are committed against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and/or transgender.5 States have put in place laws to prevent job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation but in California, propositions were initially passed for the state not to recognize same-sex marriages and banning same-sex marriages. We as a state have obviously come along way in regards to the issue because as of now, same-sex marriage is legal in the

Meanwhile the government are not protecting the LGBT community because it’s considered “wrong” this causes violence towards homosexual. For example, the cons about Gay Rights is that “Married LGBT couples can access the same assistance as heterosexual couples and are afforded the same amount of protection under the law”(Duigon 4). The government does not show equalness towards the LGBT community as they do to the “straight” people. It’s disappointing that protection is reduced because he or she is attracted to their same gender or more, but how government ignores that fact that they are struggling as well at the other and yet nothing has changed for them. To go into more detail, Mississippi has created a law to where doctors can refuse to provide medical care to he or she that are homosexual, as well as therapist do not have to counsel them either.

Over 90% of students who identify themselves as LGBTQ hear discriminating comments on a daily basis at school. People who are from this community have a bigger probability of being victims of hate crimes than any other minority group. This violence is made up of hatred and aggression towards the queer community. Despite personal opinions, everyone deserves to feel safe.

It is remarkably easy for people to boil down America’s current situation to that of a second Civil War in-the-making. All you witness in the media today is the polarity and out-right divisiveness of the country. While there is no doubt that political tolerance and political efficacy is at the lowest it has been, simply reducing the circumstances surrounding our current administration and our fellow citizens to that of a country tearing itself apart is not a fair assessment. When you look back at our country’s history, our situation is nothing new. We are living in a time of change and I am confident that once again, our country and its citizens will come out stronger than ever before.

According to Pew research poll, hispanics are the 2nd most discriminated ethnic group. Have you ever seen s hispanic and thought to yourself, have the ever been discriminated? Hispanics experience discrimination in several locations, for example, their place of work, dealing with the police, and in the stores. One of the most common places a hispanic gets discriminated is their place of work.

Hispanic or Latino face physical, psychological and social discrimination especially Latino LGBT communities which are most suppressed one, due to their gender and sexual identity. This problem persists since longtime. Discrimination is born when one feels that his identity is different from others and superior. They are discriminated economically, socially and psychologically. LGBT face discrimination not only at work place but also at home and schools.

After Black Tuesday, business took a devastating economic blow which caused them to let go some of their employees. Discrimination played a huge role in the workplace, but African Americans were affected the worst. Most were laid off from their jobs before the whites and were often rejected when they apply for a job because of their race. Although in the shanty towns it is completely different, the people do not look at people 's color because basically everyone is poor.

Working as a health care professional can be both challenging and rewarding. However, like many of these professions there exists many challenges of which some are good, and yet many are bad. In an article published by Valentine, Wynn and McLean (2016), Improving Diversity in the Health Professions, equity among the healthcare professional workers is not shown in the workforce of today. Whites as implied by Valentine etc. al (2016) makes up more than 79% of the U.S. population which is followed by Asian Americans, African Americans, Hispanic and Native Americans.

Even though we live in a “free society” discrimination still goes on every single day, in fact, laws are still being passed allowing discrimination. The most recent discrimination has been directed at the LGBTQA members. Recently governor Phil Bryant signed a bill allowing business to

Introduction Employment discrimination has become one of the most prominent areas of modern litigation. Businesses are sued more often by their employees than by any other category of litigant -- more than by competitors, customers or regulators. The great majority of those lawsuits by employees involve the allegation of employment discrimination. The threat of employment discrimination lawsuits has changed the nature of the employment relationship and caused employers to implement safeguards, procedures and technicalities they would have never considered fifty years ago. Further, discrimination has entered the popular consciousness as a legal concept much more successfully than many older legal concepts or categories.

Even today, as Rich Bellis points out in his article, "Only 19 states and Washington, D.C., have passed laws preventing LGBT Americans from being discriminated against by employers. Three others protect employees on the basis of sexual orientation but not gender identity" (Bellis). Although this shows only a fraction of America's minorities, it is still a fair indicator that the American Dream is unachievable to certain groups in America all because their differences cause them to have unequal opportunities for success. This is outrageous, especially when the American Dream means equal opportunity as mentioned in a prior

Here in Ontario, transgender rights have come along way in the recent years. For example, sexual reassignment surgery is no longer required to change your sex classification in government records. This act of justice is essential to the transgender community because it’s a huge step for general society to recognize that transgender people exist and aren’t defined by their anatomy. As a society, we are responsible for accepting our transgender peers and making them feel safe, comfortable and respected. Fortunately, in Ontario, an all rights, equal opportunity and/or anti-discrimination bill was passed recently that specifically outlaws discrimination against gender identity or

There are incidents that have happened in the past involving the laws that help people that despise transgender people. As there are more incidents of violence occurring, it

Annotated Bibliography Gender equality in the workforce is a subject that has been researched throughout the years. Following the Civil Rights Movement in 1964 when sexual discrimination was outlawed, and in 1967 when President Johnson amended the bill in 1967. Researchers believe that discrimination is a thing of the past. Although, in 2012 Walmart faced nationwide lawsuits for discrimination (Hines, 2012).