How to Stop Employment Discrimination

Story Time:

Eddie worked at an office for a corporation that made toys, theses toys need to be made and shipped out all throughout the world. One day Eddie came to do to his job, but sadly his boss, Mr. Charles gave him a hard time about the toys not being shipped from yesterday, Mr. Charles pulled up Eddie's file, and then he threatened to be fired if he didn't get yesterday's shipment and today's out on time. Eddie, of course, did his job, ten times harder, and was not fired that day, although the prior mistakes that he made early in his life were hard to deal with to get this job, to pay his bills.

Eddie is Stressed

 This sadly left Eddie very stress do to his boss putting so much pressure on one person in the office. Although people may think that Eddie is trying to show off to get, the new promotion, for a management position that recently became available. This was sadly not the case on why Eddie was working so hard, he needed to work so hard to keep his job, this would have even more stressful on a human body, this would cause Eddie to not sleep or eat correctly. While people deal with struggles every day, Eddie may have the worst of it, continually being threatened about losing his job; while is family needs the income just to get by from week to week.
Impacts on the Society
The impacts of employment discrimination do not just affect that sole person, it would impact their families who just scrape enough to make by, Allowing themselves to skip out on the basic human requirements, such as food, water, medical care, and others necessities. The definition of employment discrimination according to Esmaili, Tala is "Laws seek to prevent discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, physical disability and age by employers" (2017). This would allow some type of discrimination to occur during the workplace. Such as different pay rates between co-workers, who are a different race, who has been there as long as the other co-workers. This also is pointed towards gender identity. According to Shah, D " ... legal databases to determine which state laws specifically prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity... 22 states we identified having such laws" (2009). This would break down the different regulations that corporations need to follow, for non-discrimination of different gender identities. Although these databases do show the laws that would prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of the sexual orientation and gender identity of the employee. A lot of the states in the U.S. do not follow these regulations and laws to cut down the discrimination between co-workers.

How Society Stop Employment Discrimination?

Remember to say "NO"

 Of course, there are laws and regulations that are in place to help stop employment discrimination, but is it enough to stop it completely? The answer would be "no", you as a society need to stand up for themselves instead of letting it go on for a set period of time. Although yes some employers very understanding when it comes to discrimination, they would do all in their power to stop it, while some may not, and just leave it alone as the employee's problem to deal with and not theirs. According to The University of New South Wales, "An employer must not take adverse action against a person who is an employee, or prospective employee, of the employers because of the person's physical or mental disability" (2018). While there is help out there for people who are being discriminated against, it all goes to the person who wants to come forward and talk about those things, while trying to have a better lifestyle for themselves and their family. By allowing people to say "NO!" to the treatment that they are facing would have a huge self-esteem boost for them and they would be able to pull themselves out of that mess.

Reference
1. Esmaili, Tala. “Employment Discrimination.” Legal Information Institute, Legal Information Institute, June 2017, www.law.cornell.edu/wex/employment_discrimination.

2. Shah, D., & United States. Government Accountability Office. (2009). Sexual orientation and gender identity employment discrimination overview of state statutes and complaint data (Rev. ed.]. ed.). Washington, DC: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office.

3. Adverse effects: Can the “fair work act” address workplace discrimination for employees with a disability? (2018). University of New South Wales Law Journal, The, (3), 846. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsaup&AN=edsaup.913343742704249&site=eds-live&scope=site