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If your employer doesn’t like you and fires you, it isn’t necessarily actionable discrimination. The employer must be discriminating on the basis of a “protected category” for the discrimination to be illegal. The specific categories which are protected are spelled out in particular laws, or statutes. Because gender, or sex, is one protected category, everyone is protected by at least one category. Many people fall into more than one protected category.
In other words, if the category of the discrimination isn’t spelled out in a statute, the employee is not protected from that form of job discrimination. Therefore, if the boss doesn’t like you, but you don’t know why, or the category isn’t protected by law, he can fire you or not hire you for that reason.
There are many different types of illegal discrimination. Some examples of common discrimination are:
- Age Discrimination
- Disability Discrimination
- Racial Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation Discrimination
- Religious Discrimination
- Pregnancy Discrimination
- Gender Discrimination
- National Origin Discrimination
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