Plaintiff seeks to recover damages from her employer for employment discrimination and sexual harassment. Plaintiff states in her complaint that the acts of the defendant are so outrageous that punitive damages are due up to and including attorney fees.
Employment Workplace Discrimination For Disability Cases In New York
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Discrimination arising from disability Things that result from someone's disability could include: absence from work because of regular hospital appointments. a change in behaviour because of the medication someone is taking. needing regular rest breaks or toilet breaks.
It is disability discrimination if someone is harassing you because of your disability. You may be able to take action about this. Someone is harassing you if you find their behaviour towards you offensive, frightening, degrading, humiliating or in any way distressing.
Employers are prohibited from: refusing to hire, interview, promote or terminate on account of disability; diminishing compensation or conditions of employment on account of disability; or refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with a disability.
With regard to employment, the State Human Rights Law makes it an “unlawful discriminatory practice” for an employer “to refuse to hire or employ or to bar or to discharge from employment” or “to discriminate against an individual in compensation or in terms of conditions or privileges of employment” because of an ...
For example, if a school refuses to take a child who suffers from epilepsy unless she stops having fits, this will count as discrimination. In some cases, an education provider can treat a disabled student less favourably if it can justify this.
Direct discrimination. Direct discrimination is when you are treated worse than someone else because you have a disability. You have to show that there's a link between your disability and the way you've been treated.
