National origin
National origin is the
Discrimination
In Europe, discrimination against a person on the basis of national origin is considered a type of racial discrimination.
In the US, it is illegal to discriminate against a person on the basis of national origin in education, employment, housing, lending, or other specified areas.[2] For example, employers cannot refuse to hire job applicants or treat employees differently because of where they were born, their ancestry, their culture, the languages they speak, or speaking with an accent.[2] Workplace rules that require employees in the US to speak only English on the job can be a form of discrimination on the basis of national origin, but employers may have a legitimate business need for employees to speak English at work, such as to provide adequate supervision or to prevent the isolation and alienation of employees and customers that do not speak the same non-English language.[3]
Under Australian law, discrimination on the basis of national origin is illegal, whereas discrimination on the basis of nationality or citizenship is not; national origin is determined only by the situation at an individual's time of birth (their birthplace or the national origin of their parents), not by factors subsequent to their birth (such as naturalisation or Renunciation of citizenship).[4]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-84731-697-4.
- ^ a b Federal Protections Against National Origin Discrimination. U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. 2001.
- ISBN 978-1-57073-806-7.
- ^ "National Origin | Australian Human Rights Commission". humanrights.gov.au. Retrieved 2021-04-02.