Discrimination - means a child/young person is treated differently because of their membership such as race, colour, gender, religion, ancestry, origin, disabilities.…
An example of direct discrimination is when a career refuses to prepare a particular meal for the service user because the career does not eat such food. This is direct discrimination on the ground of belief.…
Lack of awareness and training. Discrimination could be intentional, ie. when someone is bulling or harassed. Or unintentional when ie. For someone is difficult to access education as there is no sufficient staff to assist this person with learning difficulty.…
Indirect discrimination - This is harder to spot and generally occurs because of a lack of planning. An example of this is the boy refused entry on his first day at school in 2009 because of his cornrow braids which the school considered a “badge of gang membership”. The high court called this indirect racial discrimination.…
Indirect discrimination – This can be more difficult to spot as it usually occurs when there are practices and procedures in place for all pupils or a certain group that could put a particular pupil at a disadvantage or will be discriminative. A school requires male pupils to wear a cap as part of the school uniform. Although this requirement is applied equally to all pupils, it has the effect of excluding Sikh boys whose religion requires them to wear a turban. This would be indirect discrimination based on religion and belief as it is unlikely that the school would be able to justify this action.…
Discrimination is stated as “action that denies social participation or human rights to categories of people based on prejudice” (“discrimination”). An individual is often discriminated against for various reasons such as age, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, and race/color. My whole life, I have witnessed numerous acts of discrimination, especially in the school environment. For example, children from different cultural/ethnic groups are easily targets for discrimination because of their non-typical look or talk. These prejudice acts, especially at early ages, are often source of behavioral issues as well as depression, isolation, and low self-esteem.…
There are direct discrimination that happens to children and young person who is only allowed to access part of the curriculum and school activities because of their current situation such as race, gender or disability e.g where a school would not allow or accept a pupil because of their special educational need or a group of pupil do not let another pupil join in with them because of their race.…
Indirect discrimination - applying practices that might favour one group over another or applying requirements or conditions that a particular group are less likely to be able to comply with…
Children often experience prejudice and discrimination by staff known as institutional discrimination where policies allow this or individually by other pupils or groups, often through lack of knowledge or assumptions being made about a certain group they belong to. There are two ways in which this can occur either directly (children not allowed access to learning through gender, race, disability etc) or indirectly (excluded due to circumstance e.g. cooking certain foods as they are not allowed to be touched or eaten for religious reasons)…
In the articles "Discrimination At Large" by Jennifer Coleman and "Ok, So I'm Fat" by Neil Steinberg, both authors discuss the battle of being overweight and the discrimination they experienced because of it.…
Today’s organizations are faced with many ethical and legal issues when dealing with the diverse work force such as the potential of discrimination when conducting day-to-day activities. The issues of diversity and discrimination affect many organizations behavior when considering how to properly treat the employees without making decisions based on based on race, nationality, creed, color, age, sex or sexual orientation. The influence of laws on decision-making has a direct impact on the livelihood of an organization. Understanding laws about discrimination is important if one wishes to be sure he or she is being treated fairly. This paper will discuss the legal process one would pursue whom was discriminated against by a private sector organization and wishes to file a complaint. The factious employee’s name is John and he wants to file a complaint against his employer for discrimination. This paper will describe discrimination laws and show how a complaint begins with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and proceeds through the civil litigation process from the state level up to the United States Supreme Court.…
Throughout the years, psychologists have been researching the relations between racism in America to better understand the prejudice whites mainly have on people of color (Is Racism on the Decline in America). Clearly, throughout time there has been “declines in expressions of prejudice, negative stereotyping, and resistance to equality by Whites” (Is Racism on the Decline in America?). While there is less direct discrimination occurring in society, indirect discrimination still occurs to date. Indirect discrimination refers to “discrimination by means of rules, regulations or procedures that may appear to be neutral, but which actually discriminate against certain groups of people”. An example of indirect discrimination is a white person…
According to the United States Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are approximately 120,589,850 people employed in the United States out of an estimated 330,000,000 total citizens (U.S. Department of Labor). This means that over one-third of the country’s total population is currently employed. With such a large percentage of the population in the work force, it has become necessary to incorporate laws and restrictions that protect a worker’s individual rights. Over the last 50 years there have been several historic measures taken by the United States government to protect workers from not only physically hazardous working conditions but any working environment that may be deemed ‘hostile;” be it physical or mental. One area that has drawn significant attention by lawmakers is the topic of discrimination in the workplace. Since 1963 the United States government has taken substantial steps to ensure that every American is protected from discrimination in the workplace. A few monumental actions taken by the government to protect workers’ rights include legislation such as; The Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, The Civil Rights Act of 1991, Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, and the establishment of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, or EEOC, in 1964 to monitor and investigate cases of alleged discrimination.…
Within this essay, I would like to describe how and when to challenge discrimination within school practice, and how this can in affect children and young people. What discrimination is and how to prevent it happening in schools.…
In recent years there has been a push back against employment law. Major employers have been working to try and reduce the protections given to workers, in the name of higher profits. Employment laws were put in place to protect workers from wrong-doing from their employers. Without it, workers would be vulnerable to a number of things.…