Case Study:
You are a contractor with a contract that requires you to provide "staff augmentation" support at a local USMC base (i.e., your employee will be on base, working together with DoD civilian and military personnel). One of your best employees is obese. The local Marines, all buff and in tip-top shape, chafe at the presence of your overweight and out of shape employee and demand that you "fire them" or you they will terminate your contract. What should you do?
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A discussion would be had to determine first, if there is a performance issue that would warrant firing the employee. The discussion would also include a reminder of discrimination, affirmative action and equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws and regulations that are enforced by the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP).
According to an article by HR Hero, discrimination "for the purposes of employment law, is any workplace action such as hiring, firing, demoting and promoting based on a prejudice of some kind that results in the unfair treatment of employees...". (HR Hero).
resource: HR Hero. (n.d.). Workplace Discrimination Employment Laws|HR Topics for Human Resources. Retrieved December 7, 2016, from Discrimination in the Workplace:
https://topics.hrhero.com/discrimination-in-the-workplace/#