One aspect of discrimination laws often overlooked is a charge of retaliation- that is - a negative employment action taken against an employee based upon the employee's complaining about discrimination of that employee or another employee or the environment. This means that the person filing the charge may not be the one being discriminated against directly. In the current economic environment when employees are laid off or fired, lawsuits are mounting. In the case of retaliation, the complainant need not be one of the classic "protected class" members. I find this an interesting development in the article in this National Law Journal
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202435116819&Employers_Under_Siege_Discrimination_Complaints_Flooding_Into_the_EEOC#
The rise in complaints for retaliation means that any employee can sue an employer alleging that he or she had made a complaint about the discriminatory nature of the employer's workplace environment.
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