Employment and Discrimination

Rita Rastogi Kalyani, M.D., M.H.S.

DEFINITION

When a person is unreasonably denied a job, terminated from employment, or kept from promotion on the basis of their medical condition.
A person with diabetes may be discriminated against if he/she is not offered employment opportunities that he or she is able to perform.
Legal definitions of employment discrimination vary from state to state and country to country, and can be complex.
An experienced lawyer may be needed to evaluate the strength of a case involving discrimination.

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