Discrimination definition:
A distinction based on the personal characteristics of an individual resulting in some disadvantage to that individual.
Discrimination
The treating of one or more people unfairly, as compared to any other person or persons. Discrimination can be based upon the following grounds: sex, sexual orientation, race, nationality, religion or disability.
Discrimination
Under a range of different kinds of legislation, the law prohibits discrimination against various sectors of the workforce.
Discrimination
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Discrimination claim: A petition filed if your employer has fired or discriminated against you for filing a workers' compensation claim.
Dispute: A disagreement about your right to payments, services or other benefits.
Age Discrimination In Employment Act (ADEA) at Legal Glossary What is it? A federal law that prohibits arbitrary discrimination against workers over the age of 40 in any employment decision, especially firing.
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Age Discrimination in Employment Act: A federal law that protects older employees from employment discrimination on the basis of age.
Discrimination
the area of law dealing with unfair or unequal treatment of a person or persons based upon their belonging to a protected class.
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Emancipation is a term used to describe various efforts to obtain political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group, or more gencussion of such matters.
Discrimination Suit Filed Against Restaurants
Suit Filed Against Denver International Airport
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Anti-Discrimination Legislation
Equal Pay Act 1970
Sex Discrimination Act 1975
Race Relations Act 1976
Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Protection from Harassment Act 1997
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See Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
ademption
The failure of a bequest of property in a will. The gift fails (is "adeemed") because the person who made the will no longer owns the property when he or she dies.
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" National treatment : A tenet of international trade agreements whereby nations must afford imported goods the same treatment that they afford domestic or "national" products (no discrimination).
Since laypersons initiate the administrative process for resolving employment discrimination complaints, the procedural requirements for Title VII actions are 'neither interpreted too technically nor applied too mechanically.' Ong v. Cleland, 642 F.
In the early history of the inns discrimination was exercised in regard to the social status of candidates for admission to them.
civil-rights law, enacted 1990, that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps.
Categories such as terrorism, riots and discrimination fall under this distinction. The target usually represents the antithesis of the offender's belief. It is usually organized, planned and done in groups.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Law prohibiting discrimination to persons with disabilities, by requiring, among other things, that places generally open to the public, such as restaurants and hotels, be made accessible.
The senses are usually entirely wanting; many are deaf and dumb, or blind and others are incapable of perceiving odors, and show little or no discrimination in their food for want of taste.
Constitution that prohibits discrimination by state government institutions.
Federal Home Loan Board
The board which charters and forbids discrimination in the sale.
Federal Housing Administration
A federal Agency which insures first mortgages, enabling lenders to loan a very high percentage of the sale price.
Employment Religious Discrimination
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Sexual Harassment
the area of law dealing specifically with discrimination consisting of unwelcome verbal or physical conduct directed at an employee because of his or her sex.
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ANTITRUST ACT Federal and State statutes to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraint, price discrimination, price fixing, and monopolies.
APPEAL Resort to a superior court to review the decision of an inferior court or trial court.
The right to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, including such constitutional rights as free expression and religion, without discrimination in treatment by reason of race, color, sex, age, religion, ...
Robinson-Patman Act An amendment to the Clayton Act which deals with price discrimination.
A tenet of international trade agreements whereby nations must afford imported goods the same treatment that they afford domestic or "national" products (no discrimination).
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Upon the death of one spouse all the community property goes to the other except in Texas surviving children get one half and in obvious sexual discrimination Nevada and New Mexico allow the husband to will a half to someone other than his wife.
A vestige remains in employment discrimination claims by persons whose employers require them to work on Sundays (or Saturdays, that are "Sabbath" for Seventh-Day Adventists and other religious groups).
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