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The law in New Hampshire against discrimination says that it is illegal for employers to discriminate because of age, sex, race, marital status, disability, color, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation. Pregnant women are protected by the discrimination law. The employer must allow a pregnant woman to take time of if she has any sort of pregnancy related illness. They also must reinstate the woman to her job after the baby is born.

If you feel your rights have been violated, you can file a discrimination lawsuit one of two ways. You can file it with the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights, or with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is a federal agency. Whichever one you file your suit with will share the case with the other, so you do not file with both agencies.

I am sure you would be relieved if your case were successfully taken care of by the administrative agency. In this case, you can avoid actually filing a lawsuit, and it would be preferable if this turned out to be the way you went. If you do not get a satisfactory resolution, you probably should follow through with the filing of a lawsuit. You must wait until your case has been pending with the NHCHR for a total of 180 days before you can request the right-to-sue notice and proceed with your state claim. The statute of limitations based on your state claim is three years; in other words, from the day that you are claiming the discrimination occurred, you have three years to file a lawsuit. After that period of time, you may not be eligible to file a suit.

I hope this makes the New Hampshire Discrimination Notice a little clearer. This law is part of the series of laws that all should be posted in your place of employment.

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