follow, is not unlawful discrimination, but it could be
what is Legislators have enacted a number of
discrimination?
Discrimination can be
direct or indirect
Direct discrimination means treating a person
with a particular attribute differently than a person
without that attribute, e.g. not hiring someone because
they subscribe to a certain religion.
Indirect discrimination means imposing a
requirement that someone with a certain attribute
cannot comply with, e.g. requiring a worker with
family responsibilities to work weekends.
Discrimination means treating a person or
group less favorably than another person or group due
to their circumstances or personal characteristics.
These include a persons:
race;
age;
religious belief;
gender;
sexual orientation;
marital status;
pregnancy;
political belief or activity;
union membership or activity;
impairment or disability (whether
temporary or permanent); or
obligations as a parent or career.
How to Avoid Discrimination
policies to reduce discrimination in the workplace and considered bullying behavior.
in social settings. However, racism, sexism, ageism
and other forms of discrimination are still common. How you can prevent discrimination in
You can avoid discrimination socially by thinking the workplace
about your words carefully and cultivating openness
toward other people, especially those who differ from Discrimination may be caused by you as an
employer or by other workers, but you still have the
you; similarly, avoid discrimination at work by setting
responsibility to monitor, manage and help prevent
objective qualifications for positions and instituting
discrimination in your workplace.
policies against workplace harassment in all forms.
Part 1 : Avoiding Social Discrimination To do this, take the following steps:
Think about the jokes you want to tell carefully
before you say them. Humor can lighten the mood, but it educate all your workers about
is often taken at anothers expense. Many jokes degrade
discrimination;
women, ethnicities and disabled people.
encourage workers to respect each others
Learn another language, or be open to accepting that differences;
most countries have citizens who speak dozens, if not respond to any evidence or complaints of
hundreds of languages. Promoting language education,
inappropriate behavior;
rather than fighting it, can decrease discrimination based
on ethnicity. deal with any complaints of discrimination
promptly and confidentially;
Fight gender stereotypes in the home. Thinking of things develop a workplace policy that prohibits
as womens work or mans work may lead to gender
discrimination;
discrimination in the next generation. As more and more
train supervisors and managers on how to
families become dual-income households, make sure both
respond to discrimination in the workplace;
sexes are treated as partners
make sure the workplace policy is properly
Part 2:
enforced; and
Avoiding Discrimination at Work review the policy regularly to ensure that its
effectiveness is maintained.
Develop a set of qualifications and
prerequisites before you start hiring for a
job. Judge the candidates based on these
professional parameters. If you fear a
.
colleague is discriminating in their choices,
ask for a third party to judge the candidates
without seeing their names or faces.
Treating a person differently because of some other
activity or characteristic, e.g. the football team they