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Prejudice Discrimination

September 23rd, 2006 Posted by Nicole

Prejudice discrimination occurs when a person pre-judges another based on physical appearance, beliefs or some other aspect or characteristic of the individual. The judgment comes without ever having known the person being prejudiced against and general is unfounded and terribly illegal.

Prejudice discrimination is illegal in all cases and is protected in the US by laws on both the state and federal levels. Employers may not make a hiring decision, promotional decision, opportunity decision or any other work-related decision based on prejudice. Some common prejudices in the workplace include: prejudice against a person of color, of a particular sexual orientation, a person of a particular gender, a person of a particular age or otherwise.

The workplace has been a source for regulation since the turn of the century. First, women were granted equal rights in the work force, then children and African Americans. Not all regulations have been met with the same sense of open arms and some have even lead to serious conflict between different groups of workers. However, the Civil Rights Act, which was put into place in the 1960’s granted equal rights to all once and for all.

Each workplace is required to have a labor law poster posted in the workplace in a place that is highly visible to all employees. This labor law poster contains information about all labor laws that pertain to a particular place of work. As such, employees in that place of work have full access to the labor laws that effect them, including prejudice discrimination issues.

If an employee believes that he or she is the victim of prejudice discrimination, the employee should read about his or her rights on the labor law poster. The poster also provides contact information for the state and federal agencies that oversee all labor laws. Thus, the employee should contact an agency to file a claim.