HR Basics: Protected Classes

HR Basics is a series of short lessons, designed to highlight what you need to know about a particular human resource management topic. In today’s HR Basics, we explore Protected Classes, the characteristics protected from employment related discrimination by law.
A protected class is a group of people with a common characteristic who are legally protected from employment discrimination on the basis of that characteristic. The primary objective of antidiscrimination legislation is to ensure that individuals are given equal opportunity in the workplace.

[@PinkYellowGreen2023]

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[@ThePeterDislikeShow]

Is dietary preference a protected characteristic?

[@BlondeDGamer]

Yes where it applies to religious angle, or health angle. Some people are not comfortable disclosing they have an epi-pen (some people steal them, real shame) but may say they have "preferences" but usually they will make it pretty clear. If someone is vegan, that _may_ be health if they're allergic to common farm animals as well- or eggs- or dairy- and vegan is the easiest way to explain all their health needs. So company lunches, peanuts served? It'd be great to know if someone has such a bad nut allergy that their health could be compromised- and it just sucks leaving someone out every time, so a little kindness could win over employee tenure with just a little compassion and ordering ahead/extra.

[@ThePeterDislikeShow]

@@BlondeDGamer I wish we would just add dietary preference as a blanket protected class. Why force people to disclose the reason for the preference? Besides, unless you're a wine taster it almost never changes your ability to do anything.

[@SRose-vp6ew]

Getting in trouble for allowed segregating and giving extra privileges to different groups? That’s because it’s unconstitutional. “No person shall be denied the equal protection of the law nor be subjected to segregation or discrimination in the exercise or enjoyment of his or her civil…”

[@TroyBrownTV]

So blacks isnt a protected characteristic?

[@DrDuckMD]

Race is a protected class, blacks would fall under the race category.

[@arcadealchemist]

no characteristic should be protected, it's snake speak for "if your not on the list you're not getting in"

[@TroyBrownTV]

@arcadealchemist that's a long way of saying "n*gger" We the only ones not on anybody list and nobody is letting us into anything. We have been chosen by ALL OF THE PEOPLE ON EARTH to be the whipping boy, the fall guy. We was legally 3/5tjs of a human being. So anybody saying black shouldn't be a protected class is an out and out white supremacist. You just want us lynched with impunity. You racists better know your days are numbered. We coming

[@SRose-vp6ew]

“No person shall be denied the equal protection of the law nor be subjected to segregation or discrimination in the exercise or enjoyment of his or her civil…” The constitution. HR workers could lose funding for treating different people differently based on race, that would be racism. Racism, including giving special privileges to people based on race, is wrong no matter who the victim is, white, black, anyone. Racism is wrong.

[@XTR02]

In the video it literally says race is protected.

[@Bwh-rm3py]

Sounds weird