A25-year-old white male employee reveals to his boss that his wife is pregnant and requests time off until the baby is born. soon thereafter, the boss begins treating the employee differently and starts assigning the employee's current client accounts to a childless, 40-year-old asian female coworker. two weeks later, the employee is demoted for poor work performance, and the time-off request is denied. the employee decides to sue for workplace discrimination. which law supports this employee's claim?

Family responsibility discrimination

Explanation:

               Family responsibility discrimination is a discrimination shown to any employee of an organisation based on the responsibilities shown by the employee towards his family.

              It is also known as caregiver discrimination. It is discrimination shown against an employee for the family care giving responsibilities.

              Almost all the employee is or will be a care giver to their family. They include pregnant women, fathers, mothers, persons who have sick or ageing parents or sick children or spouse, etc. All of them can be targeted for care giving discrimination at the organisations.

            Theses employees can be demoted, harassed or even terminated.

Thus the law which supports the employee's claim is ---

Family responsibility discrimination

Family responsibility discrimination

Explanation:

Family responsibility discrimination: It is related to discrimination with the employee at the workplace. The discrimination is about the family responsibilities for mother, father, children, pregnant wife and ill spouse. This is also called caregiver responsibilities discrimination.  

Here are some examples related to the discrimination at the workplace:

answer; empathy;

answer; marvin gaye;