Reverse Discrimination - Reverse Discrimination in The Workplace

Reverse Discrimination in The Workplace

Reverse discrimination is ethically challenging and has many different viewpoints. For example, it is important to consider reverse discrimination in the work place.

When members of a particular group have been barred from a particular employment, it is said that this group has received less than its fair share of employment in question and deserves to receive more by way of compensation. Thus, this group is being compensated for past lack of employment. Therefore, a group already existing in the workplace will be discriminated against, even if they’ve never been denied employment previously. If the point of reverse discrimination is to compensate a wronged group, it will hardly matter if those who are preferentially hired were not among the original victims of discrimination. Moreover, the current beneficiaries of reverse discrimination are not often the same persons as those who were harmed by the original discrimination, and those who now bear the burden of reverse discrimination are seldom the same persons as those who practiced the original discrimination. Because of this, reverse discrimination is said to be both irrelevant to the aim of compensating for past injustices and unfair to those whose superior qualifications are bypassed

It is often argued, by majority groups that they are being discriminated for hiring and advancement because of affirmative action policies. However, critics of this argument often cite the symbolic significance of a job has to be taken into consideration as well as qualifications.