Harrassment Is an Example of Discrinimation in Employment...

Job Discrimination by definition is the practice of using an individuals race, color, national origin, sex, or religion to make employment decisions related to hiring, firing, compensation, evaluations, promotions, and training. There is a lot of discrimination in employment and the example of discrimination that occur is Harassment. Harassment Sexual harassment is one of the most heard in the workplace and usually it occur when employees are subjected to unwanted and unwelcome treatment due to their race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability factor. Harassment usually included an offensive jokes, unwelcomed comments that related to a person’s protected class and lastly through the physical threat or contact.†¦show more content†¦Race and Colour Discrimination Racial discrimination happen when employer employ or select potential applicant based race-related characteristic. In US, the discrimination are usually against the African American man as they are much prefered white american man due the reason of preserving the image of the company. In Malaysia, based on the analysis of research derived from sources such as international organization, government, non-government (NGO), academic, news report, statistical data and original direct testimony collected from a wide range of individual, the discrimination can be seen in the aspects of the treatment of bumiputera and non-bumiputera. It was believed that the discrimination occur and experience on other ethnic group in the field of education, employment, housing and political participation. Within the employement field, the discrimination can be seen in the domination in public sector by malay empployees as a results of affirmative action policies and such policies had as well led to discrimination on the treatment of malays in the housing sector. Besides that, discrimination on employment also happen against the primarily indigenous woman from the public employment sector due to the lack of education qualification. Religious Discrimination Religious discrimination occur in many form and one of it is where employer