Using a Work Discrimination Lawyer:
To take on a case involving discrimination at work can take a long time and prove more difficult than many other workplace problems. Therefore an employment lawyer usually specialises.
Age discrimination:
when you are treated unfairly because of your age – people thinking you are too old, too young or middle aged. Forcing people to retire at the old retirement age is also against the law.
Carers' responsibilities discrimination:
when you are treated unfairly or harassed because you are responsible for caring for or supporting some adults or children, or others think you are.
Disability discrimination:
when you are treated unfairly because you have a disability, or are thought to have a disability.
It is also against the law to treat you unfairly you because you had a disability in the past, or because you will or may get one in the future. Disability includes physical, intellectual and psychiatric disabilities, learning and emotional disorders, and the perception that you harbour an organism capable of causing disease (e.g., HIV).
Discrimination because of who you are related to, or who you associate with:
when you are treated unfairly because of the sex, pregnancy, race, age, marital status, sexuality, disability, transgender status or carers’ responsibilities of your relatives or associates.
Homosexual discrimination:
when you are treated unfairly because you are lesbian or gay, or thought to be lesbian or gay.
Marital status discrimination:
when you are treated unfairly because of your particular marital status — because you are single, married or living in a de facto relationship.
Pregnancy discrimination:
when you are treated unfairly or not given the same opportunities because you are pregnant.
Race discrimination:
when you are treated unfairly because of your race, colour, ethnic background, ethno-religious background, descent or nationality.
Sex discrimination:
when you are treated unfairly because you are a woman or because you are a man.
Transgender (Transsexuality) discrimination:
when you are treated unfairly because you are transgender or others think you are transgender. You are counted as transgender if you live or seek to live as a member of the opposite gender to your birth gender.
At John F. Morrissey and Company, our staff have been schooled to become experts as gay discrimination lawyers, age and gender discrimination lawyers, disability and religious discrimination lawyers and job discrimination lawyers.
