Against sexual harassment:
In legal terms, sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual advance or conduct at work, which creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive. In real life, in the workplace sexual harassment ranges from offensive jokes or repeated contempt for a place full of attacking pornography (creating a hostile work environment) to work a full assault. Although sexual harassment usually takes the form of men harassing women, it can happen to men and women, gay and straight - in other words, sexual harassment is a crime equal opportunities.
Fortunately, federal and state laws to protect workers against sexual harassment in the workplace - the same laws that protect workers against discrimination based on sex. Federally, Title VII
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You can do this by filing a complaint with the human resources department, talk to your manager (or managers) about the problem, or inform a business executive.
The age discrimination in employment:
The age discrimination in employment or federal ADEA (29 USC §§ 621-634), is the main federal law that prohibits discrimination by employers, employees and applicants who are aged at 40 years based on age.
The ADEA protects employees against discrimination on age in all stages of employment, including recruitment advertising, interviewing, hiring, compensation, promotion, discipline, hard work, demotion , training, work assignments, and termination. The US Supreme Court ruled that the ADEA prohibits practices and seemingly neutral policies, but have a disproportionately negative effect on older workers (disparate impact) and those on older workers worse than explicitly Young workers ( unequal treatment). (See Smith v. City of Jackson, Mississippi, 544 US 228 (2005).)
Not only ADEA prohibits employers from discriminating against older workers in favor of those under 40, also prohibits employers from discriminating against older workers. For example, an employer can hire a 43-year-old instead of a 53-year-old simply because of