Are they using the color of your skin or your accent to hold you back?

Have you noticed that everyone in your department at work in the same color or nationality as you? Do your supervisors and managers share the same skin tone? In the years that you have been with the company, have you ever been offered a promotion to become one of those supervisors or managers? Has anyone in your department? These are disturbing questions, and the answers may not be something you want to look at, but there’s a good chance you are being discriminated against based on your race, color and/or national origin, and so are your fellow workers. Worse yet, if you don’t do anything about it, it will continue.

Discriminatory hiring and promotion practices are still common in the United States. It’s not supposed to be like that, but unfortunately it is. There are a number of companies here in the Dallas area where you can literally see a caste system in place, yet no one does anything about it. It’s almost as if those who are workers are destined to be there and those who are managers are the chosen ones. This sort of medieval thinking is even more common in cases where large groups of workers originate in another country and speak a different language. They’re American citizens, but they’re not treated as such.

The laws in this country forbid that type of discrimination and Dallas employment discrimination lawyer Dan Atkerson can help you do something about it. Don’t feel that, because things have always been that way, they have to stay that way. Civil rights activists fought and died so you could have the same rights every other man and woman has, so don’t be afraid to step up and claim what is yours. If you feel that you are being held back because of the color of your skin or your accent, contact our office today and come in for a consultation. You may just have a case for legal action.

What kind of result can you expect if you take your case to court? A lot of cases like yours never make it that far because the plaintiffs feel like they can’t win. No one wants to be labeled as a trouble-maker and possibly lose their job, but settling for less every day is far worse than either of those. Fighting for what is rightfully yours could not only net you a nice financial settlement, it could improve conditions for you and your fellow workers. There is nothing to fear. If they terminate your employment because you’re suing them, that is illegal retaliation, and it just adds to our case and increases the amount we ask for.

This country has come a long way in the past half century and there’s no question that there are more opportunities available now than there were before, yet some individuals and even entire companies still practice discrimination on a daily basis. If you feel its happening in your workplace, talk to someone there about it. If your pleas fall on deaf ears, contact Dan Atkerson at (214) 383-3606 or danatkerson@atkersonlaw.com.  He’ll make sure they listen.

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