Employment Discrimination

I believe employment discrimination happened because I have evidence as it happened to me at my job now about a year ago. I know I was done wrong, I am and was angry, but mostly hurt and confused, violated and even fearful today afraid it will happen again as I just received another job to begin when school starts.
A job posting became available that I was interested in at my work force. I had experience for this job from a previous position that I was rifted from about five years ago. Because I had enough time with the district I did get to keep my job, but was placed back into my old position before I received the job I was rifted from. I applied for this posting because I had enough seniority and credentials I was able to apply. My employer notified me several days later and it was determined that I …show more content…
I then found out that they hired a sub that I trained that had worked in my position while I was on maturity leave and she was family to the Superintendent and it was planned out all along because I had more seniority they had to give me this job.

On the following Monday my union representative called and wanted me to file a grievance told me that what they did was wrong and I needed to fight back but being the person that I am I said no because I had been there over sixteen years now and I was afraid they would fire me or that it would hurt me in the long run in getting the next secretary job up for post and I also told my rep that I would not work with them now if they begged me to come back after what they did. The government could completely eliminate employment discrimination if the they have the effective possibilities by starting with dismantling barriers and ensuring equality is in access to permit meaningful challenges of discrimination when it occurs. Laws practices need to be broader and more comprehensive to be able to completely eliminate employment