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Employment Discrimination
Employment discrimination can occur when a job applicant or an existing employee is denied opportunities based on his or her gender, race, age, sexual orientation or disabilities. Legally, employers are permitted to screen job applicants based on many different factors, however, they must not engage in any form of legally recognized discrimination. Currently, there are few laws in effect that protect against other forms of discrimination against fringe groups such as the obese or members of some political groups but several landmark cases have started to set a precedent.Usually, employers will review the applications and resumes of prospects, and then decide to conduct interviews based on their credentials. Some applicants have been able to successfully file lawsuits when they found that they were denied job opportunities because they have ethnic names or lived in certain areas. In other cases, employers have been able to access information about their applicants' medical conditions from their pre-employment drug screening results. It is not legal to deny a pregnant woman a job based solely on the fact that she will eventually need to go out on maternity leave, but drug screen tests have been used unethically to deny these persons job opportunities.
Existing employees have also sued there employers after being repeatedly turned down for promotions. Usually, these employers were able to provide their attorneys with written evidence that supported their claims, including email correspondences and notarized affidavits from co-workers. Employers that have shown a pattern of employment discrimination have also been sued by the federal government.
Many employers have developed clear equal opportunity guidelines that help to protect them from being accused of employment discrimination. While some former employees are not able to win their cases against their former employers for discrimination, they are usually able to build a solid case for permanent disability if they have suffered psychologically. Some employers would rather settle out of court rather than to risk receiving negative publicity.
Ultimately, the perceived victims of employment discrimination must find attorneys that are willing to take on their cases in order to proceed. If a lawyer does not believe that a particular employment discrimination has any merit, there is a good chance that a judge or jury would come to the same conclusion.
25.02.2010. 19:05