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As Indiana employees know, virtually all workplaces have policies in place to prevent discrimination. However, such efforts are not always sufficient enough to deter acts of discrimination from taking place. In the realm of racial discrimination, most Americans might...
As many Indiana residents know, the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) prohibits employers from discriminating against applicants because of their age. Despite the protections of the ADEA, many workers over the age of 40 complain of receiving less...
Nothing is better than observing an employer that proactively works toward eliminating discriminatory practices in the workplace. If a company has had a history of employment discrimination, the best thing that the business can do is work on a positive,...
Indiana individuals who have faced discrimination in the workplace because of a disability will be interested to learn about a New Mexico business that recently settled a $20,000 lawsuit with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.In this particular case, a...
Government policy has supported the idea that employers who make hiring decisions based on a person's criminal record might be illegally discriminating against the applicant. Many small businesses, however, still do not know that there is anything wrong with using...
Over the years, federal and state legislators have worked to pass laws against employment harassment and discrimination. As a result of these efforts, the United States has some of the most efficient laws. These federal laws prohibit employment discrimination and...
The Americans with Disabilities Act applies to businesses with 15 or more employees and is intended to protect people with disabilities from discrimination. A couple of years ago, Congress said the courts were defining the term "disability" too narrowly and...
Indiana women make 74 cents to every dollar that men make on average. Black women make 62 cents for every dollar that men make, and Latino women make 54 cents per every dollar. The circumstances really are not much better nationwide as women overall make 77 cents for...
Indiana has the 5th greatest disparity between the average wages of men and average wages of women. While the national gap between men and women's wages is 77 cents for every dollar, in Indiana the gap is 72 cents for every dollar.Though the figures itself seem to...
Types of employment discrimination are constantly being challenged in state and federal courts in Indiana and across the nation. One particular case is making the news concerning the firing of a volleyball coach and science teacher at a Christian Academy for...