Discrimination in the Workplace

Discrimination in the workplace occurs when an employee experiences harsh or unfair treatment due to their race, religion, national origin, disabled or veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Discrimination is one of the biggest problems people face in the workplace and it must be dealt with forcefully.

There are different ways of discrimination that occur very often in the workplace. One way of expressing discrimination is denying one a job because of his/her race or gender, or treating others unfairly because of his/her race or gender. Discrimination can lead to quitting a job, and possibly doing something harmful to oneself or to the provoker. More examples of different types of discriminations. First, sex discrimination against women; because men are the more dominant figure in todays society they receive more jobs, than women do. Secondly, there is age discrimination against both the young and elder people in finding or having a job. Finally, the disabled are sometimes not able to receive a job because of their disability. In the workplace it is much harder for women with the same education and experiences as men to earn the same job position. Most of the time if a woman gets a job above a man, she will receive a much lower salary than the man would receive if he had the same job. Others argue that women should simply be given greater opportunity to work less than a full-time schedule since they are being paid wages equivalent to part-time work for full-time employment (Pay Equity, par 2). Women are also faced with sexual harassment, a form of sex discrimination in the workplace. An employer may hire a woman for a job that she is not capable of because ...

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