Jail time, P100 thousand fine eyed for discriminating Pinoys

A six-month jail time on top of a P100,000 fine have been pushed as penalties discrimination once a measure deeming it as a crime gets Congress' approval.

Rep. Susan Yap of Tarlac City made the proposal under her House Bill 401 or the Anti-Racial, Ethnic and Religious Discrimination Act of 2013 which penalizes acts of discrimination, profiling, violence, and all forms of intolerance in employment, education, delivery of goods, facilities and services, accommodation, transportation, media, in search of investigatory activities, and in political, civil, cultural and social life on the basis of ethnicity, race, religion or belief, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, language, disability and other status.