Employment Discrimination and Anti-harassment Laws – What Small and Medium Business Owners Needs to know
small business owners are often unaware that apply to employment discrimination laws for them. Since such operators are usually not the luxury of large human resources departments or in-house counsel, such companies are often in the dark about their obligations under these laws caught. All employers that have 15 or more employees with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) at the latest. Employers with 20 or more employees must also with the provisions of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (the latest “ADEA”). What do these laws require? They demand that you not discriminate against employees on the basis of the employee’s age, disability, sex, race, color, national origin or religion.
Guide to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
This act is very considerate of people with disabilities, and it allows disabled people to receive the conditions they need to be able to work. For example a diabetic person can stop and eat or check blood sugar levels when needed. There are many considerate parts of this act such as buildings must be made accessible to people with disabilities and blind people must be read bulletins to. Â This act qualifies people with disabilities as people with a “mental or physical impairments that substantially limits one or more major life activities” (FAADA).
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Employers Should Become Aware of Constructive Discharge In the Workplace
There are a lot of workplace rules that employers must be aware. A constructive discharge occurs when an employee’s working conditions become so intolerable because of harassment that no reasonable person could continue working for the employer. These claims are difficult to prove, especially since most employment relationships in Illinois are at-will.
Read the full article linked below.
http://chicagoemployeeadvocate.blogspot.com/2009/09/constructive-discharge.html
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What Do You Discriminated Against?
So I was talking with a friend when she sent me a post she read on a blog that got me thinking. There are many things to discriminate against; race, sex, age, sexual orientation but what is trans discrimination? It isn’t gender discrimination in isolation… it isn’t sexual discrimination.
Link to the full article below.
http://o1oo1o11.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/what-do-you-discriminated-against/
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