Preventing Workplace Discrimination and Harassment for Employees
Everybody deserves to be treated fairly at work. Anti-discrimination law aims to level the playing field and provide employment protections and opportunities to those who may have been overlooked or marginalized in the past. This course explains what is meant by discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It covers the concept of retaliation, the impact of discrimination and the relevant legal framework that aims to prevent it. It looks at how an employee can get help with unfair treatment and provides ways to promote fairer workplaces. There is also a supplementary course on this topic for supervisors and managers.
Covered in this course:
- The five laws designed to protect employees from discrimination, harassment and retaliation in the workplace.
- The protected groups under the five laws.
- The difference between harassment and discrimination.
- Terms to describe retaliation: adverse action, covered individual and protected activity.