Discrimination at Work
AS 18.80.220 — race, religion, age, disability, sex, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood and more, and retaliation too
An employer may not refuse to hire, bar from work, or discriminate in pay or any term or condition of employment because of race, religion, color or national origin, or because of age, physical or mental disability, sex, marital status, changes in marital status, pregnancy or parenthood when the reasonable demands of the job do not require the distinction.
Who handles this in Alaska: Disability Law Center of Alaska and Alaska State Commission for Human Rights; and legal aid programs, lawyer referral and the state offices, listed in the Alaska directory.
- Job ads, application forms and interview questions that express a limitation on any of those grounds.
- Firing or punishing someone for opposing a forbidden practice, or for filing a complaint, testifying or helping in a case.
- A union excluding or expelling someone on any of those grounds.
Sources for this section (1)
- AS 18.80.220 — Unlawful employment practices; exception
Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of October 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Alaska attorney.