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The basic goal of this research was to investigate whether employees in the field of education experience discriminations or not. Basic concepts regarding otherness and the types of discriminations that can occur within a working environment are analyzed in the theoretical part. Next, what follows is reference to the team and its basic traits, to communication and ways that it is carried out, and to the characteristics of leadership. Experience has shown that quite often employees, during their professional career, undergo hostile treatment due to gender, racial or ethnic origin, beliefs, age, disability or sexual orientation, in short due to private data that they can neither change, nor such a change can understandably be asked. This hostile treatment can be located in any stage of their professional relationship, in other words it can be related to hiring, the process, or the end of the contract. Discrimination in the working field can be either direct or indirect. In the research part of the current work a quantitative research was conducted with the use of a questionnaire that was responded by a total of 102 teachers. It contains thirty-four (34) questions divided in five (5) distinct parts. Apart from the question that concerned demographics (sex, age, work experience, family status), the remaining thirty (30) were classified, that is “closed-ended” questions, with specific content, from number 1 (Strongly Disagree), 2 (Disagree), 3 (Neither Agree Nor Disagree), 4 (Agree), 5 (Strongly Agree). In order to draw conclusions, what comes next is a detailed presentation of the research methods and its outcomes. Finally, what follows is a discussion on the main findings and a summary of this research’s main conclusions