Plaintiff seeks to recover damages from her employer for employment discrimination and sexual harassment. Plaintiff states in her complaint that the acts of the defendant are so outrageous that punitive damages are due up to and including attorney fees.
Workplace Discrimination In Australia In Salt Lake
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In 2020, the General Social Survey (GSS) found that 13.3% of people aged 18 years and over experienced some form of discrimination in the previous 12 months.
Australia is home to the world's oldest continuous culture as well as non-Indigenous Australians who identify with over 300 different ancestries. Migration to Australia is not a new phenomenon. In fact, Australia has a rich history of migration and trade pre-dating British colonisation.
Over the past 10 years, racist incidents have been reported in all aspects of Australian society, from everyday settings such as public transport, to essential institutions such as education and healthcare. While legislation protects against discrimination based on race, many people experience racism daily.
For example, it would be discriminatory if a real estate agent refused to rent a house to a person because they were of a particular race or skin colour.
“As we see over and over in the media, violence against women is shockingly common. It affects two in five women from the age of 15. And workplace sexual harassment has impacted one in three people in the last five years .
For example, it may be direct discrimination if a real estate agent told an Aboriginal person that they have no properties for rent but told a Caucasian person that they do.
European, African, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and North American Australians have also been the victims of discrimination and harassment. In addition, Jews, Italians and the Irish were often subjected to xenophobic exclusion and other forms of religious and ethnic discrimination.
DCA has found that this 'everyday exclusion', as they call it, has increased in Australian workplaces since the pandemic. In particular, DCA found a rise in the following exclusionary behaviours: Workers being ignored or treated as if they don't exist (33% in 2024, 24% in 2019)