Plaintiff seeks to recover actual, compensatory, liquidated, and punitive damages for discrimination based upon discrimination concerning his disability. Plaintiff submits a request to the court for lost salary and benefits, future lost salary and benefits, and compensatory damages for emotional pain and suffering.
Discriminatory For Language In Chicago
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On , City Council passed Mayor Emanuel's Language Access Ordinance based on the Advisory Committee's recommendations. This ordinance ensures that immigrants can access critical services and information in the most common languages spoken in Chicago. The full text of the ordinance can be found here.
The Illinois Supreme Court Language Access Policy identifies the broad scope of individuals eligible to receive interpreter services, establishes a three-tiered certification system for court interpreters and provides standardized guidance to promote language access in Illinois courts statewide.
This type of discrimination generally makes it illegal to prefer one language over another, though there are many exceptions. The driving force behind the illegality of language discrimination is whether or not an individual was hired, fired, or required to speak one language over another for a discriminatory purpose.
Language discrimination occurs when a person is treated differently because of her native language or other characteristics of her language skills. For example, an employee may be experiencing language discrimination if the workplace has a “speak-English-only” policy but her primary language is one other than English.
Our language access plan outlines efforts to improve access for limited English proficient (LEP) individuals – people whose primary language is not English and who have limited ability to read, speak, write, or understand English.
The Illinois Human Rights Act and the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance both protect a person from being discharged, disciplined, denied employment during the hiring process, or denied promotions, because of a conviction record without notice and an interactive assessment of whether there is a substantial relationship ...
The Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003, which prohibits excluding participation in, denying the benefits of, or subjecting a person to discrimination under any program or activity based on that person's race, color, national origin, or gender; or using criteria or methods of administration that result in disparate ...
Call the State of Illinois Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Helpline at 877-236-7703 Monday through Friday, a.m. to p.m. State of Illinois Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Helpline: 877-236-7703 TTY users call the Helpline via 711.
The Chicago Human Rights Ordinance prohibits discrimination in employment, public accommodations, credit transactions, and bonding, as well as retaliation. The Chicago Fair Housing Ordinance prohibits housing discrimination.
We shall not discriminate and will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, Board membership, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender ...