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exceptions for seemingly discriminatory decisions otherwise based on what’s called a bona fide occupational qualification, simply catering to customers’ biases and prejudices do not fall under that exception.

Instead, the antidiscrimination laws and the cases brought under them make clear that employers may not segregate employees of a particular national origin from customers. By choosing not to hire you for the manager position due to their customers’ preference that Filipino employees be limited to caregiver positions, and excluded from managerial positions, it seems your company violated protections against discrimination based on race, national origin and ancestry.

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