Harrassment Is an Example of Discrinimation in Employment

Job Discrimination by definition is the practice of using an individual's race, color, national origin, sex, or religion to make employment decisions related to hiring, firing, compensation, evaluations, promotions, and training.

There is a lot of discrimination in employment and the example of discrimination that occur is Harassment.

Harassment

Sexual harassment is one of the most heard in the workplace and usually it occur when employees are subjected to unwanted and unwelcome treatment due to their race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability factor. Harassment usually included an offensive jokes, unwelcomed comments that related to a person’s protected class and lastly through the physical threat or contact. Example of issue or case that related to harassment will be share and discuss on the following case and issue section. Usually women are the most victims of this kind of discrimination if to compare with man. Under the morale of justification, sexual demand or harassment usually happen due to the threat of losing significant job benefits such as promotion, raise or in order to get hire. This kind of situation usually leave the individual with no choice or defenseless. But under the human basic right, individual are violated against their right to freedom and dignity while the individual who possess this harassment action are misusing their power.

There is two type of sexual harassment. The first is call as Quid Pro Quo Harassment . This type of harassment are on the basis of something for something which means the sexual conduct were base on the employment condition for example an exchange of promotion on female employee with a date with the manager. Meanwhile, The second type of sexual harassment is r...

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...r an employment decision. This kind of discrimination usually results from stereotype on certain gender. Gender-plus discrimination is one in which employer hire employee based on the factor of appearance and personality although both have the same age and qualification or abillity.

National Origin Discrimination

National origin discrimination are mostly relate to bad treatment against non-citizen employee. In certain country, accent and language fluency of non-citizen applicant become the employment decision. In malaysia, non-citizens or migrant workers were subjected to the disadvantages due to the discriminatory of domestic legislation. In which under the Employment Act of 1955, non-citizens employee are not entitles with the same protection as what the malaysian or domestic worker have in term of compensation for workplace injuries and occupational illness.