Retaliation defined: An employer may not fire, demote, harass or otherwise “retaliate” against an individual for filing a charge of discrimination, participating in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposing discrimination.
The three terms are associated with Retaliation are:
- Adverse Action
- Covered Individual
- Protected Activity
An adverse action is an action taken to try to keep someone from opposing a discriminatory practice, or from participating in an employment discrimination proceeding.
Examples:
- Decrease in wages
- Unreasonable increase in responsibilities
- Decrease in scheduled hours
- Loss of benefits
- Demotion
- Transfer
- Assault
- Dismissal
- Negative evaluation
- Denied attending meetings
- Increased surveillance
- Unfounded civil or criminal charges
Note: this does not include petty slights and annoyances, such as stray negative comments in an otherwise positive or neutral evaluation, “snubbing” a colleague, or negative comments that are justified by an employee’s poor work performance or history. Read the rest of this entry »
