What do if my employer had told me I could not be promoted on the basis of gender and age?
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What do if my employer had told me I could not be promoted on the basis of gender and age?
I had the most seniority out of any employee in a management position in this store. The district manager, had told me that I would be next in line for the position of store manager. I had asked for an opportunity to prove myself worthy of this position and he has never given me the opportunity to do so. Instead, he had promoted his son-in-law to store manager, who at the time was working at another location and he never had any experience in the grocery business.
Asked on August 30, 2011 Tennessee
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
You really don't indicate that your lack of a promotion was based on your gender or age. Where specific comment regarding either of them ever made to you or to your co-workers? The fact is that nepotism is not illegal. If your manager wanted to give his son-in-law preference that's wasn't against the law. Unfair and unprofessional yes, but not illegal.
The fact is that employers need not treat their employees the same or even fairly. One employee can be favoredover another. In an "at will" employment situation, an employer can set the terms and conditions of employment as it sees fit.
Am employees only protections would be if there is an employment contract or union agreement to the contrary, or if such action is a violation of existing company policy, or if this treatment is a result of legally actionable discrimination.
And discrimination based on gender and/or sex is such discrimination. Again, however, you give no supporting facts in proof of this.
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