Federal and state law prohibits individual disparate treatment on the basis of: race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, religion and retaliation and objection to unlawful practices or participation in enforcement efforts of the EEOC or similar state agencies. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis described above in hiring, promotion, compensation, discharge, terms and conditions of employment, referral to employment, classification, admission to apprenticeship training programs, employment advertising and rehiring. Again, Title VII Regulates: Private employers with 15 or more employees, State and local governments. Labor unions with 15 or more members, employment agencies, Joint apprenticeship committees, Federal government through special rules and Congress (through even more special rules) but does not regulate individual employees. The EEOC and state agencies, through work-share agreements, enforces the statute through administrative procedures. If you have been discriminated against then contacting a local EEOC office or the state level equivalent with a certain amount of time is the first step that is taken outside of your employer's procedures. Below are links to state-level agencies for states with large Arab-American and Muslim populations. Click the links for the following sites: Nationally and federally, the EEOC has jurisdiction, for the text of Title VII, click here. For their office directory, click here, for their 9/11 materials, click here. In California: Department of Fair Employment and Housing and for their claim complaints section, click here. The most comprehensive state agency website in the country is in Florida: The Florida Commission on Human Relations has a special 9/11 section,for that click here, for a 9/11 oriented complaint form, click here. In Michigan: Michigan Department of Civil Rights and for their Discrimination complaint page, click here. In New Jersey: The New Jersey Department of Law & Public Safety, Division of Civil Rights has an extensive September 11 section, including pages in Arabic, for religious discrimination, click here, and for racial discrimination in Arabic, click here. In New York: New York State Division of Human Rights for the claims process and to file complaints click here. In Virginia: Virginia Council on Human Rights and for the claim process overview click here.
	American Civil Liberties Union, founded in 1920 the organization fights perceived civil rights abuses on the behalf of ordinary people. For their site, click here, for their rights in the workplace section, click here. Arab American Anti Discrimination Committee, a civil rights organization helping people of Arab descent and promoting their cultural heritage, click here. The Arab American Institute, a public affairs group providing political and civil empowerment to Arab-Americans, click here. Cafe Arabica - an online Arab American community center, click here Council on American Islamic Relations, a community group established to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America, they help intake and claims processing and mediate solutions, click here.