What can be done about racial discrimination at work?
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What can be done about racial discrimination at work?
I have been working for a company for over 2 years, I’ve been a full-time lead supervisor for over a year now; the company manager changed in that year when I got promoted. I was told I’d be full-time but now they are cutting my hours from 40 to 25 a week. However, the only problem is they are picking only a certain race. Approximately 96% of the company is one race and the people who aren’t that race are having their hours cut. It is very, very obvious.
Asked on October 30, 2015 under Employment Labor Law, Virginia
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 8 years ago | Contributor
IF it is race-based discrimination, that is illegal, and may beentitled to compensation. The statistics you cite strongly suggest racial discrimination, and may be enough to make out a "prima facie" (basically, on its face or surface) case. If so, then the burden would shift to your employer to show that there is a non-racial reason for cutting your hours, such as performance problems, insubordination, a non-racial conflict with a supervisor, client or customer complaints, etc. d on what you write, it would be worthwhile for you to contact your state equal/civil rights agency or the federal EEOC to look into filing a complaint; alternately, you could speak with a private employment law attorney about filing a lawsuit.
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