University of Phoenix
Chris W. Poe
MGT 434
Race Discrimination
Galen Bland

Race Discrimination Two truck drivers employee’s are found to have stolen goods from the cargo they were carrying. The black employee is retained and reprimanded. The white employee is terminated. The white employee sues the employer for race discrimination under Title VII. The scenario above happens company wide around the United States and other countries. This is the new millennium, we sometimes think that race discrimination is from our past and not in our future. But claims keep on piling up in every company from different races that claims that they have been discriminated against. People sometimes used discrimination to get back at people in their company, who were about to fire them or to get a fast buck, so they can live the easy life down the road. An example of this would be the Wall Street Journal that showed a Eastman Kodak Company agreed to pay $13 million in retroactive and current pay raises to 2,000 females and minority employees in New York and Colorado. The pay raise allocation was not in response to a threatened lawsuit or a settlement to a prior action. Employees had raise the issue when they complained to supervisors the year before, so Kodak conducted the study and determined it would make the raises, which did not prevent them from receiving their routine performance-based raises. All these were the driving force of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act help pushed the companies even farther, so they wouldn’t discriminate against any employee, but even though we are protected, it still happens in the work force.
Analysis
My analysis of this scenario is that both of the truck drivers should have received the same punishment for being involved with the stolen goods, so the employer shouldn’t have discriminated the way he/she did towards each race. It is