Discrimination is not an easy task to record and report. Many employees in New York and nationwide face various types of workplace discrimination that makes them feel uncomfortable and less productive at workplace. Most of the employment discriminations are left unreported because of the difficulty to recognize it in proper time.
Carey & Associates PC have highly qualified employment attorneys to help you determine the complex situations easily and find a cost-effect solution quickly. They have been handling their clients’ employment litigation and appellate work in Connecticut, New York, and across the U.S. They can responsibly represent their clients to the company, the court and the jury.
What is employment discrimination?
When an employee is discriminated at workplace due to their age, gender, race, disability, and other personal information, it is illegal and is termed as employment discrimination. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New York City Commission for Human Rights and the New York State Division for Human Rights handles the employment discrimination and protects you from it.
Such discriminations are in the form of verbal abuse, offensive language, retaliation, harassment, unfair treatment, unequal pay, and denial of employee benefits. Employment discrimination can cause depression, mental imbalances, low productivity, and other bad affects.
What are the prevalent types of employment discrimination?
Recently, race and national origin discrimination are the most frequently reported type of the employment discrimination in the New York. It happens when an employee faces discrimination at their workplace because of their race and nationality. There are other prevalent types of employment discrimination in the New York City.
It includes –
- Age – It refers to employing, promoting, and benefiting individual employees based on their age.
- Disability – Employees facing disability discrimination are deprived of fair pay and treatment at workplace.
- Gender – Here, only the employees of specific sex or gender enjoy the most favorable work conditions in terms of pay and other benefits.
- Sexual Orientation – When an employee is discriminated for being transgender or gay, they may not enjoy employment opportunities, equal and fair pay, employee benefits, and other perks at workplace.
- National origin – The New York Employment Law protects employee against unfair treatment, unethical working conditions, and unequal distribution of employee benefits because of their nationality, accent, language, culture, and ethnicity.
- Retaliation – This employment discrimination type makes it difficult for the employee to obtain employee benefit claims, fair salary hike, promotion, and unequal pay. Retaliation may also result in firing the employee.
Employment discrimination of all forms is illegal and liable for discrimination lawsuits to protect the interest of the New York workforce.
