Identify, list what groups are protected from employee discrimination and why?

 

Groups that are protected from employee discrimination include;

• Applicants
• Current employees
• Former employees

Their discrimination is based on ethnicity, colour, faith, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), national origin, age 40 or older, disability and genetic details, candidates, unfavorable discharge from military service, or citizenship status or even ones marital status.

Step-by-step explanation

Workers and former employees are shielded from employment discrimination (including family medical history.Applicants, workers and former employees are also shielded from retribution (punishment) for filing a discrimination charge or accusation, engaging in an investigation or litigation into discrimination or opposing discrimination (for example, threatening to file a charge or complaint of discrimination).

Some of the areas where discrimination can be experience include;

a) Job advertisements - A work advertisement expressing a preference for or discouraging someone from applying for a job because of his or her race, colour, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information is illegal for an employer to print.

b) Recruitment - it should not be based on the named characteristics. For example ,The dependency of an employer on word-of-mouth recruitment by its mostly Hispanic employees can violate the law if nearly all new hires are Hispanic as a result.

c) During the application and hiring process - An employer does not for instance, refuse to offer employment applications to individuals of a certain race.