Proving Discrimination

Proving Discrimination
Discrimination happens in almost every aspect of our lives including personal, business and family. However, discrimination in the workplace is illegal and not to be taken lightly. In this day and age an employee must be able to prove unfavorable treatment by the employer and it must be based on an illegal bias. There are steps one can take to prove discrimination based on race, age, national origin, sex, creed, religion, color or disability (Floyd, 2000). In this paper I will be discussing a few of these steps.
The first step that must be taken is to find the employee’s position. The employee must show that he/she is a member of a protected class and that he/she has suffered adverse employment action. Everyone is a member of at least one protected class because gender or sex is a category. The protected classes are those that are protected under law and many people form at least one protected category; women, people with disabilities or handic...