Employment Discrimination Lawyer in Allen, TX

Title VII precludes employers from discriminating against employees or prospective employees based on their race or national origin. Unlawful racial discrimination can take on many forms. It can be an overt action or more subtle in nature. For instance, an employer cannot use race as a basis for hiring, promoting, or terminating an employee. Likewise, race cannot be a factor in an employer’s decision to not hire or promote an employee. 

As only women can get pregnant and bear children, pregnancy discrimination falls within the purview of sex discrimination. Not only does Title VII prohibit mistreatment on the basis of pregnancy as a type of sex discrimination, but the Pregnancy Discrimination Act outlaws any discrimination on the basis of an employee’s pregnancy, childbirth, or maternity leave as well. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act and Title VII provide recourse for employees who have experienced mistreatment in this manner.

Sexual harassment can be direct sexual overtures or actions between a supervisor and subordinate, or between two co-workers. Sexual harassment also can occur in the context of a hostile work environment, in which other employees create a sexually inappropriate workplace atmosphere that offends one or more employees. Sex discrimination protections also extend to gender identity. Title VII governs all of these situations. 

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal law that bars employers from discriminating against employees or prospective employees on the basis of disability, or any physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of an employee’s major life functions, such as walking, talking, seeing, or hearing.