Chapter Five reverse Flashcards
(22 cards)
to eliminate or adjust requirements are conditions to enable a person to carry out the essential duties of an activity or job.
Accommodate
the place were people live or want to live.
Accommodations
giving advantages to groups who have been discriminated against in the past.
Affirmative Actions
a qualification that would normally be considered a discrimination but is necessary for proper of efficient job performance.
Bonafide Occupational Requirement
the person making an allegation of discrimination.
Complainant
bringing conflicting parties to a resolution of their differences.
conciliation
employment policies that inadvertently exclude certain individuals, resulting in discrimination.
Constructive Discrimination
an overt act of discrimination.
Direct discrimination
areas or buildings designated for public use.
facilities
the most serious part of an accusation.
gravamen
persistent behaviour that violates the human rights of a victim
harassment
the right to receive equal treatment, to be free form prohibited discrimination and harassment, and to have access to places, services, and opportunities.
Human rights
intervention between conflicting parties that promotes compromise or settlement of the dispute.
mediation
an uncomfortable or disturbing atmosphere created by the negative comments or behaviour of others.
poisoned environment
a preconceived opinion based on a stereotype of inadequate information.
prejudice
legally convincing unless disproved by contrary evidence.
prima facie
person who allegedly discriminated
respondent
unwelcome sexual contact, remarks, leering, demands for dates, requests for sexual favours, and displays of sexually offensive pictures or graffiti.
sexual harassment
having an oversimplified, standardized, or fixed judgment of a group of people.
stereotype
the result of a change that would affect the economic viability of an enterprise or produce a substantial health and safety risk that outweighs the benefit of the accommodation
undue hardship
making a distinction between people and treating them differently on the basis other than individual merit.
discrimination
legal documents that protect people from prohibited discrimination
human rights code
