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POLICIES:
As per the Banks harassment policy, any form of discrimination or harassment,
directly or indirectly, towards any employee is considered to be misconduct
warranting disciplinary action.
Harassment is any form of verbal or non-verbal behaviour that is directed at the
infected individual resulting in the individual feeling threatened, insecure or
distressed. Discrimination of HIV/AIDS infected employees will not be condoned.
This includes treating those affected differently or not applying a professional
judgement in making personnel decisions.
Not engage in or support discrimination, by a supervisor, manager or any other
employee
in hiring, termination, remuneration, training, promotion or retirement
on the grounds of race, caste, national origin, religion, age, disability, gender,
marital/parental status, sexual orientation, falling ill, becoming pregnant, HIV
status, migrant status, union membership, being a worker representative or
political affiliation or any other criteria that are unlawful at any level of the entity.
Not interfere with, and ensure that employees are free to exercise/observe, tenets
or practices, or to meet needs relating to, race, caste, national origin, religion, age,
disability, gender, marital/parental status, sexual orientation, HIV status, migrant
status, membership of union or worker representative bodies or political
affiliation.
Not tolerate discrimination by a supplier or subcontractor.
Encourage local employment where local laws promote local linkages.
POLICIES:
Tele source communications recognizes its responsibilities and obligations in employment under
State and Federal anti-discrimination and equal opportunity laws. As organization is committed
to providing an environment for effective work , free from unlawful and unacceptable
discrimination and harassment.
The procedures set out below may be used to define and resolve complaints of direct and indirect
discrimination and of harassment on the grounds recognized in relevant State and Federal laws
and in company policy. These grounds include:
sex or gender, and sexual harassment.
marital status, pregnancy, potential pregnancy, parental status and family responsibility.
age.
personal association with or relation to any person who is identified on the basis of any of
the above attributes.
SUGGESTIONS
Providing information about rights under Federal and State laws, including
the opportunity to lodge complaints with the Human Rights and Equal
Opportunity Commission.
undertaking negotiations between the parties and between the parties and
their supervisors in appropriate cases.
The complainant shall present as promptly as possible after the alleged discrimination or
harassment occurs. One consequence of failure to act promptly is that it may preclude
recourse to external procedures should the complainant desire to pursue this option at a
later date. The following steps shall be available:
Advice and Self Help
The Director, Equity, Counseling & Careers or nominee may act as an intermediary
between the parties with the aim of reaching an agreed solution It is also permissible to
use co-mediation: two Advisers work together, one working primarily with the
complainant and the other with the respondent. This option can result in a feeling of
support by both parties, and in less stress on each of the Discrimination Advisers who can
share perspectives and proposals for a solution which will result in the continuance or
resumption of satisfactory work or study.
Action on Requests
The Director, Equity, Counseling & Careers shall make available to the respondent in an
investigation a statement of the allegations. Natural justice does not require that the
respondent be given all documentation, but sufficient detail must be provided to make
possible an informed response. The statement of allegations shall be provided as soon as
possible, and the respondent shall have up to fourteen days in which to reply. An
extension of time may be granted by the Director, Equity, Counseling & Careers in
special circumstances.
Conciliation
SUMMARY OF ARTICLE
Pay discrimination against women ought to have become a thing of the past. This article
investigates whether this is so, taking evidence on men and women in their early 30s at
two points during this period. Differences in the rate of pay received by men and women
are of clear interest from the point of view of both equity and efficiency. Horizontal
equity within the labour market would require equally productive workers to receive
equal pay independently of personal characteristics such as gender, age or race. major
source of human capital differential between the two sexes is in their attachment to the
labour market. In standard human capital variables, the later cohort, particularly the
women, are better endowed. Perhaps the closing wage gap is due less to any change in
the extent of discrimination than to educational expansion, the shortening of career
breaks and the increased numbers of women pursuing uninterrupted careers. The
closeness of the male/female wage ratios emerging from the two cohorts with that for
employees of all ages (at the median) derived from the New Earnings Survey suggests
that the analyses of the cohorts probably does have some applicability to a wider age
group. The preliminary results are encouraging. The probability of women participating,
and participating full-time is reduced by marriage and having children, but it increases
with the age of the youngest child. Both ability and the educational dummies have
significant and positive effects on participation, and so does the fact of having a husband
who left school before 17 years of age. More surprising is the result that being an owner
occupier reduces the probability of participation in either of the two states for the women.
The pattern of unequal treatment of women observed in 1978 was not uniform. On many
characteristics, full-time women employees had an advantage over men, for example
educational qualifications and most of the more auspicious social backgrounds. Mens
wages benefited most from recent work experience, residence in the South East and from
being in the reference category.
The net improvement for women in 1991 came from a mixture of cross-cutting trends.
The advantage of most educational qualifications and social backgrounds seems to have
swung to men, but their relative advantage from recent employment experience and
residence in the South East.
SUMMARY OF ARTICLE
Racial Discrimination discriminating against any group of people who have a common
characteristic or trait. Well, times have changed and so has the racial discrimination.
African Americans are now allowed to enjoy everything the hotels have to offer. The
black community is contending that blacks are given the lowest paying jobs in the
Gaming Industry. Even the black employees who do a good job are not being promoted,
they are merely told that by doing a better job at their current job they will earn larger
tips. When we take all this in and step back and look at the whole picture, it seems that
blacks are treated as equal to whites when it comes to being a customer, but there is racial
discrimination by the Gaming Industry when it comes to having black employees.
Currently, there seem to be no major complaints against the Gaming Industry by other
minority groups. There are, however, many complaints from a class of people referred to
as card counters. Going further, the Nevada Gaming board requires that all non-Indian
owned slot machines pay out 75% of what the slot machines take in. In New Jersey, it is
mandated that non-Indian slot machines pay out 83% of what the slot machines take in.
All machines are randomly sampled and tested for accuracy. If the machines are not
paying out at the specified levels, the non Indian casinos risk losing their gaming
licences. Non-Indian owned casinos want there to be fair competition in the Gaming
Industry. They believe that if Indians can operate in a particular state, so should the nonIndian owned casinos. The non-Indian owned casinos want all slot machines to have to
pay out at the same percentage levels for both Indian owned and non-Indian owned slot
machines. They also want the Indian casinos to be regulated and monitored by some kind
of governing body.
QUESTIONS
Q#3 What can a supervisor do to help employees feel safe reporting discrimination,
workplace harassment and sexual harassment?
Answer
o Set an example of respectful workplace behavior.
o Have clear expectations that discrimination, workplace harassment and sexual
harassment are not tolerated.
o Have a clear mechanism for reporting; including the ability to report to another
member of management should the supervisor be the accused.
o Take immediate steps to stop inappropriate behavior or conduct as it occurs or is
reported.