Discrimination Law
All Discrimination Law Articles
Workplace Discrimination
Discrimination in the workplace can take place in one or more ways; bias in hiring, promotion, job assignment, termination, compensation and various...
Housing Discrimination and The Fair Housing Act
What is the Fair Housing Act? Signed by President Lyndon Johnson on April 11, 1968, the Fair Housing Act is one of the components of the Civil R...
Gender Discrimination Overview
Gender discrimination, or sexism, is the belief that one sex is superior to the other sex and it can refer to the hatred of or distrust towards eith...
GINA: Genetic Discrimination
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (“GINA” or the “Act”) is an attempt to keep pace with technology and address the numerou...
GINA: Part 2
GINA applies to all employers with 15 or more employees and is modeled after Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”). In addition...
Laws against Religious Discrimination
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title VII of that Act protect employees and students from religious discrimination in the workplace and in the educ...
Discrimination of the Disabled
The Disability Discrimination Act helps protect the rights of disabled Americans from discrimination based on their physical or mental disabilities....
Insurance Coverage for the Disabled
The ADA, or Americans with Disability Act, and the MHPA, or Mental Health Parity Act, works to help protect the rights of all disabled individuals d...
Racial Discrimination Overview
Racial discrimination has occurred repeatedly throughout the history of mankind and it has happened all over the world. Racial discrimination occurr...