Law promoting equity and safety
Law promoting equity in the workplace to protect the rights of minorities, older person, women , and person with disabilities.
and other legislation to protect safety to all worker
Title VII of the civil rights act passed in 1964 and amended several times since.
Title VII is prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of :
race sex religion color national origin
The civil rights act also created Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
help business to b=design affirmative action programs to increase job opportunities for women and minorities.
by :
1_ analyzing the present pool of employees.
2_identifying the area where women and minorities are underrepresented.
3_ establishing specific hiring and promotion goals.
The Equal Pay Act of 1963:
mandates that women and men who do equal work must receive equal pay.
wages differences must allowed only if they can be attributed to: seniority performance qualifications The Americans With Disabilities of 1990:
prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities and give them same opportunities as people without disabilities.
Occupational Safety And Health Act of 1970:
mandate that employers must provide safe and health working condition for all workers.
Law Protecting The Environment: environmental protection laws have been enacted largely in response to concerns over business impact on the environment, which began to emerges in the 1960
the problem is the difficult to arrive at accurate monetary evaluation of environmental damage or physical pain and injury . in addition, people outside the business world often perceive such analyses as inhuman .
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
was created in 1970 to coordinate environmental agencies involved in enforcing the nation's environmental laws .
the major area of environmental relate to : air water land pollution
large companies are begin encouraged to :
- establish pollution mechanism control
- policies favorable to environment
Theses companies could :
-deplete resource
-damage the health and welfare of society by focusing only on their own economic interest .
increase in toxic in the air and water as well as noise pollution , have prompted the passage of a number of law .
many environmental protection laws have resulted in the elimination and modification of goods and service.
The harmful effect of toxic waste
- on water life
-on leisure industry
such as : resort and fishing have raised concern about proper disposal of these waste.
some firm have solved this problem by illegal or un ethical measure :
- Dumping toxic waste along the highways .
-Improperly burying drums containing toxic chemicals.
- discarding hazardous waste at sea .
one solid waste problem result of rapid in innovation in computer hardware .
computer contain such toxic substance as lead , mercury polyvinyl chloride which can leach in to soil and contaminate ground water when disposal properly . 