DC Employment Discrimination

Employment discrimination refers to discriminatory employment practices due to or based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, and physical or mental disabilities. There is also a growing body of law preventing employment discrimination based on age, sexual orientation or gender identity. There is also another type of discrimination called unintentional discrimination. This type of discrimination is often called statistical discrimination and it occurs when neutral selection practices produce a substantial disparity of outcomes between one group and another. This type is not usually done intentionally but it is also prohibited by law much like intentional discrimination unless they are due to specific job requirements, such as a certain height or weight to do the job safely.

Have you or someone you know been a victim of employment discrimination in Washington DC? Contact Lynn Andretta in Washington DC for expert representation regarding DC Employment Discrimination!

These types of conduct are prohibited and could be actionable. If you believe your employment has been adversely, unlawfully or unfairly affected, contact us at the law offices of Lynn Andretta in Washington DC.

Your job may have been adversely, unlawfully or unfairly affected in the following manner:

• Termination or suspension
• Cutting or changing your hours
• Changing your job duties
• Demotions
• Pay, retirement plans, or disability leave
• Harassment
• Creating a hostile work environment
• Transfer, promotion, layoff, or recall
• Training and apprenticeship programs

We are protected by a group of laws in this country designed with the purpose of protecting us from such conduct. Besides the 1967 Employment Discrimination Act, the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution limit the power of the federal and state governments to discriminate. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, first conceived to help African Americans, was amended prior to passage to protect women in courts, and explicitly included white people for the first time. It also started the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

It is also illegal for a company or management to take retaliation against an individual for filing a charge of discrimination, participating in an investigation, or opposing discriminatory practices, or to make employment decisions based on stereotypes or assumptions about the abilities, traits, or performance of individuals.

Employment discrimination can take on many faces and affect us in many different facets of our lives. No one is immune from discrimination and at some point in our lives we have or will experience it. Whether it is age, race, employment, disability, sex, or religious, discrimination can rear its ugly head anywhere, and those are just the more known and general terms for discrimination. We also deal with discrimination based on marital status, economic status and even pregnancy and the worst part of it is it grows exponentially from there. Discrimination has the power to demean and degrade an individual as well as strip him/her of their civil rights.

Have you or someone you know been a victim of employment discrimination in Washington DC? Contact Lynn Andretta in Washington DC for expert representation regarding DC Employment Discrimination!

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