What constitutes discrimination at work?
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What constitutes discrimination at work?
We have a cafeteria on site where I work. One of the cafeteria workers was rude to me so I told her that I was going to tell her manager the following day. However, the next day she had preemptively made up some wild false story about me and told it to my manager. My manager, without asking me my side of the story, banned me from the cafeteria despite my doing nothing wrong. I feel this is discrimination because everyone else is allowed in the cafeteria. Revoking a natural privilege from an employee without any good reason definitely seems like discrimination to me.
Asked on July 20, 2018 under Employment Labor Law, Missouri
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
Legally actionable discrimination has to do with a worker receiving lesser treatment due to their race, religion, nationality, age (over 40), disability, gender, etc. Mere rudeness does not qualify for making such a claim. The fact is tht not all employess need be treated the same or even fairly. Accordingly, unless your the actions that you describe violate the terms of a union agreement or employment contract, it is legal.
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