Discrimination

According to United Nations every individual shall be entitled to the enjoyment of

the rights and freedoms recognized and guaranteed. The charter disallowed any
kind of discriminations against humans on the basis of race, ethnic group, colour,
sex, language, religion, political or any other opinion, national and social origin,
fortune, birth or other status.

How discrimination can be carried out?

A supervisor or person in authority making employment decisions related to hiring,

firing, transferring, promoting, demoting, benefits, compensation, and other terms
and conditions of employment, because of an employee’s protected class status.

Why is it important for employees to report discrimination?

Discrimination can cause:

• Employees to be hurt emotionally
• Productivity to go down
• Absenteeism to go up
• The work of the agency to be jeopardized
• Employees to be fearful of others
• Workplace morale to be reduced
• When management knows about the problem it can be corrected
• Discrimination must be stopped at any stage

Why do employees hesitate to report discrimination at workplace?

• Fear of losing their job

• Fear of retaliation
• Fear of getting someone into trouble
• Fear of disrupting the workplace
• Fear of being accused
• Fear of being embarrassed

Non-discrimination as special right

• Independent right
• Measure of enforcement of other rights
• procedural requirement
• Forbidden classification race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion,
political opinion, social ground, origins, color, sexual orientation, age any
other grounds (which individual cannot influence)
• Reasonable differentiation standing on objective basic if there is not any
fundamental rights.