compliance issue that led to the lawsuit Gender-based wage discrimination is an unlawful employment practice which should not occur in the United States today. Yet unfortunately, this type of discrimination is still faced by women in the workforce. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Greenbelt Division on behalf of a former employee of Extended Stay Hotels, Latoya Weaver. The suit alleges that Ms. Weaver had been
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Wal-Mart lost a lawsuit to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2010, due to their negligence and sexual discrimination against hiring women to work in their warehouse located in London Kentucky. Wal-Mart will be required to pay 12 million dollars to settle this lawsuit; the 12 million dollars will be split up amongst a number of claimants. “Along with the back pay and damages, as part of the settlement Wal-Mart will fill the first 50 order-filler jobs at the warehouse with female
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government won't take the initiative to fix it, the public must act as civil disobedient to bring awareness and fix the unjust law. There have been times when citizens have felt the need to revolt against the government because of an issue that is unjust. There were such cases during the time of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau made such actions to prove their point. Civil disobedience is justified when its goal is to obtain equal rights and service for everyone, without causing physical
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Leave Act. Now to complicate matters worse, the department manager that was in charge of this employee left during the employee’s leave. Eleven weeks have gone by and the employee wants to come back to work and receive the pay he missed while attending to his family. As a human resource director there are many situations that fall into grey areas, and you have to look at all options and think through the best results for both parties involved. The definition of the Family Medical leave Act according
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Supporting Good Practice in Managing Employment Relations – 3MER 1.1 Describe 4 factors, 2 internal and 2 external, which impact on the employment relationship There are several external and internal factors that might impact on the employment relationship such as the following examples: External Factors: 1. Given the state of the recession and how it might have affected an organisation’s finances, this has a large impact on the employment relationship i.e. due to cuts there be maybe
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Chapter 2: Equal Opportunity and the Law Multiple Choice 1. The _____ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law.” a. First b. Fifth c. Tenth d. Thirteenth e. Fourteenth (b; moderate; p. 30) 2. The _____ Amendment outlawed slavery, and courts have held that it bars racial discrimination. a. First b. Fifth c. Tenth d. Thirteenth
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a significant distribution against women at the company because the company is paying women at the the production plant $7.55 while they are paying the men who are doing exactly the same job $11.23.Also,the labor grade had a pay range of $7.05 to $10.50 and yet the average pay for secretaries was $7.15 with a high of $7.35.It is
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Alabama for nineteen years. For most years, she worked as an area manager, which was one, held primarily by men. In the beginning, Ledbetter’s salary stayed similar with the men whom performed similar work. Throughout time, her pay was less than the males pay whom held equal or lower seniority area manager positions. During 1997, Ledbetter’s salary was approximately fifteen percent lower than the lowest paid male Area Manager and about forty percent lower than the highest paid male Area Manager.
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Wages, and Child Labor. Discrimination Based upon your desire to recruit up to 25 employees the first year you will want to be aware of the law in Texas preventing discriminatory acts. The law prohibits employers from “denying equal employment opportunities in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, (or) other aspects of employment because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability” (The State of Texas Staff, 2015, p. 1). Non-compliance with
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LIT Task 2 LIT Task 2 The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 is a federal law to provide employees time off of work for due to medical and family reasons. Reasons include: the birth or adoption of a child, an employee’s grave medical condition which prevents the employee from doing his/her job, or attending to the serious medical condition of a child, parent, or spouse. This leave is unpaid and requires employees to have been employed with the employer for at least one year. The
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