Even if there is only one employee, one 1099 employee and that’s you, and you are being sexually harassed, you can fight back. Also under the same new revised law, effective July 2018, mandatory arbitration will no longer be mandatory for sexual harassment claims in New York.
I recently answered an anonymous ask that derided the idea that Jewish people experience employment discrimination, and have received some feedback from Jews who have experienced it:
Have an anecdote or information related to antisemitic employment discrimination you’d like to share? Send it in!
This is a bit long, so have it in the reblog format:
I live in Minnesota. Not a huge Jewish population, but we have a few communities. Not where I live, though. That said?
Back when I worked in insurance, back in 2010 and 2011, I had a cubicle. It was around Pesach at the time and spring time, so I decorated my cubicle in frogs. I thought it’d be cute and wasn’t like… too obvious? Just a bit tongue-in-cheek. And other people were decorating for Easter? I mean, otherwise, the only things that hung in my cubicle were cat pictures, memes, and a small plaque that said “shalom” in Hebrew?
I was called into HR and told to take it all down, but especiallymy plaque, because it was “offensive” to other workers. It literally says hello. Shalom means hello. It means peace. On top of this, I was reminded I wasn’t allowed to wear anythingthat had any sort of religious connotation to it, either. Despite the fact that people walked about the workplace with crosses and other religious jewelry? And Muslim women were not harassed by HR for wearing their modest clothes (nor should they of been), and many other people simply did not care about the dress code at all (there was a girl who regularly came to work in booty shorts, for example, and more power to her for giving thatlittle amount of fucks.) Many of my coworkers signatures in emails were filled with religious passages, too.
I didn’t really care if they did or didn’t do these things, mind you. Like, that’s so far from the problem I was having. Wear and do what you want, it doesn’t hurt anyone else unless their own prejudices are already in the way. But I wasseeking clarification as to what the line in the sand was, because it felt like I was being singled out by HR on a supposedly across the board policy they had never enforced before.
So, when I further questioned this, because I simply wanted to clarify what exactly was crossing the line and what was not, I was told to go home early instead of being given an answer. I came back the next day and my keycard didn’t work. When I called HR and asked what the hell was going on, they told me that they had decided they no longer needed my services. They just deactivated my car and had no intention of telling me until I got there. And then they made me stand in their lobby, crying, because I literally had just lost the best job I had ever had.
Bonus Kicker: They wouldn’t even let me collect my stuff. They gave it to a third party and I had to pick it up two days later. None of my Judaica was in the box. They keptit. They also kept my umbrella, the bastards.
I’m a bit disappointed, but not surprised, to see the number of people who have experienced antisemitic employment discrimination or antisemitic harassment at their jobs. Here are some more accounts:
I recently answered an anonymous ask that derided the idea that Jewish people experience employment discrimination, and have received some feedback from Jews who have experienced it:
Have an anecdote or information related to antisemitic employment discrimination you’d like to share? Send it in!
This is a bit long, so have it in the reblog format:
I live in Minnesota. Not a huge Jewish population, but we have a few communities. Not where I live, though. That said?
Back when I worked in insurance, back in 2010 and 2011, I had a cubicle. It was around Pesach at the time and spring time, so I decorated my cubicle in frogs. I thought it’d be cute and wasn’t like… too obvious? Just a bit tongue-in-cheek. And other people were decorating for Easter? I mean, otherwise, the only things that hung in my cubicle were cat pictures, memes, and a small plaque that said “shalom” in Hebrew?
I was called into HR and told to take it all down, but especiallymy plaque, because it was “offensive” to other workers. It literally says hello. Shalom means hello. It means peace. On top of this, I was reminded I wasn’t allowed to wear anythingthat had any sort of religious connotation to it, either. Despite the fact that people walked about the workplace with crosses and other religious jewelry? And Muslim women were not harassed by HR for wearing their modest clothes (nor should they of been), and many other people simply did not care about the dress code at all (there was a girl who regularly came to work in booty shorts, for example, and more power to her for giving thatlittle amount of fucks.) Many of my coworkers signatures in emails were filled with religious passages, too.
I didn’t really care if they did or didn’t do these things, mind you. Like, that’s so far from the problem I was having. Wear and do what you want, it doesn’t hurt anyone else unless their own prejudices are already in the way. But I wasseeking clarification as to what the line in the sand was, because it felt like I was being singled out by HR on a supposedly across the board policy they had never enforced before.
So, when I further questioned this, because I simply wanted to clarify what exactly was crossing the line and what was not, I was told to go home early instead of being given an answer. I came back the next day and my keycard didn’t work. When I called HR and asked what the hell was going on, they told me that they had decided they no longer needed my services. They just deactivated my car and had no intention of telling me until I got there. And then they made me stand in their lobby, crying, because I literally had just lost the best job I had ever had.
Bonus Kicker: They wouldn’t even let me collect my stuff. They gave it to a third party and I had to pick it up two days later. None of my Judaica was in the box. They keptit. They also kept my umbrella, the bastards.
I recently answered an anonymous ask that derided the idea that Jewish people experience employment discrimination, and have received some feedback from Jews who have experienced it:
Narrow wage gap? How about learn more skills and become more valuable to your employer?
Manslation: Do something that benefits women? How about we have women try everything they can to get ahead, belittle and insult them every time regardless of what they do or say*, and then keep implicitly assuming that women and their contributions are less valuable no matter what?
*Don’t ask for a raise? It’s your fault you didn’t get one. Ask for a raise? Whoa there, what makes you think you deserve that? Seems a little presumptuous. Go for the promotion? It’s cute that you tried, but I think that guy Chad we just hired right out of college seems like a better fit. Don’t go for the promotion? You’re just lazy.
