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EEOC New Anti-Discrimination Enforcement Priorities

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its new Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) this spring that includes six key anti-discrimination priorities that the agency will be focusing on through 2016. These new anti-discrimination enforcement priorities reflect the intent to increase litigation as both a deterrent effect on employers to increase their anti-discrimination policies to prevent […]

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If I am harassed at work, what should I do? Dallas employment lawyer

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In Texas, it is illegal for an employer to create a hostile work environment, or workplace harassment, on the basis of sex/gender, race, religion, age (over 40), qualified disability, national origin, ethnicity, or status as a current or veteran military service member. Discrimination laws prohibit more than just sexual harassment. Harassment leads to a hostile

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Does employment discrimination still occur in the workplace?

Age Discrimination Law, Disability Discrimination Law, Racial Discrimination Law, Sex Discrimination Law

Discrimination still occurs in the workplace. Sometimes it’s people who find it difficult to treat other people with respect. Sometimes it’s people not realizing the effect of their actions on others. This is true not only of more recently acknowledged and prohibited forms of discrimination, such as disability discrimination, but also of traditionally visible forms

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Fort Worth Employment Attorney explains how employment discrimination occurs

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Discrimination in the workplace is prohibited when that discrimination is on the basis of one’s sex/gender, race, national origin, religion, age (if over forty), disability, pregnancy, genetic information and military service. Employment law prohibits it against both employees and job applicants. Employment discrimination on one of these classifications generally falls into two forms of conduct. This

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