Des Moines Discrimination Lawyers

• Termination: This is the most apparent form of adverse action, where an employer fires an employee. 
• Demotion: Reducing an employee’s rank, responsibility, or job title, often accompanied by a decrease in salary. 
• Reduction in pay or hours: Any significant cut in an employee’s salary or scheduled working hours. 
• Denial of promotion or advancement opportunities: Failure to promote an employee, primarily if it’s based on discriminatory reasons. 
• Suspension without pay: Temporarily removing an employee from their job without pay.

Subtle adverse actions can include: 

• Negative performance evaluations: Unjustified poor performance reviews can affect promotions, raises, or continued employment. 
• Unfavorable job assignments: Assigning an employee to undesirable tasks or projects. 
• Exclusion from essential meetings or projects: Deliberately excluding an employee from meaningful opportunities. 
• Harassment or hostile work environment: Creating a hostile or intimidating work environment. 
• Constructive discharge: Making working conditions so intolerable that an employee feels forced to resign.

Overt discrimination can be easy to identify with discrimination examples ranging from verbal abuse to sexual harassment. However, discrimination is not always overt and can still result in a hostile work environment. 

This can happen without anyone acknowledging why your employment experience differs from your coworkers’. It often occurs as wage discrimination when employees with the same standing are not given equal pay.