segregation based on people’s demographic characters. Some of the great laws against employment discrimination include the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (Harvard Law Review, 2015). Due to the changing societal needs, the commission has enacted several other laws addressing these new employee requirements. For instance, the Commission proposed some amendments to the Age Discrimination Act. Successfully, the U.S Supreme Court upheld these proposed amendments terming them as an
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Diversity in the Workplace 2. Race Diversity in the Workplace 3.Age Diversity in the Workplace 4.Religious Diversity in the Workplace 5.Employees with Disabilities in the Workplace 6. Sexual Orientation Diversity in the Workplace Gender Diversity in the Workplace The Equal Pay Act (1963) prohibits discrimination in pay based on gender. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964) prohibits discrimination in all employment-related decisions based on gender Earnings Gap The median earnings of women
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four consecutive days in a seven day period (Monday-Sunday). Office hours will remain the same (Monday-Friday, 08:00-17:00). Production employee Tom Arnold has filed a constructive discharge claim due to the new hours requiring him to work on a religious holy day, and quit pending the schedule change. This claim must be taken seriously as constructive discharge can result in litigations and can be rightfully covered under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This memo will depict how constructive
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environment which can cause great personal harm as well as litigation and liability issues. According to Walsh (2010), hostile work environment harassment is a form of discrimination burdened with conflict at the workplace. It can happen between colleagues of the same rank as well as between supervisor and subordinates, races, sex, religious sects, and ages to name a few examples. A person or persons are considered to be inferior and are attacked directly or subtly by one or several others in a systematic
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Program Material Discrimination Worksheet Write a 100- to 200-word response to each of the following questions. Provide citations for all the sources you use. • What is discrimination? How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? Discrimination means to identify the differences between things by placing them in separate groups and then acting differently towards each group on the basis, justified or not, of their differences. Discrimination is not necessarily
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protected under Federal law from discrimination on the following bases: � RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, protects applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe beneits, job training, classiication, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), or national origin. Religious discrimination includes failing to reasonably
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response to a notice received from the EEOC that a constructive discharge claim has been filed by a former employee. The employee alleges that our new company policy on shift work is discriminatory because the policy requires employees to work on a religious holy day. In the past, production employees worked Monday through Friday. Due to company growth, the production schedule was changed at the beginning of the year, requiring employees to work 12-hour shifts with four days at work and then four days
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COMM 315 Business Law and Ethics 07-Jan-08 |Law: |Ethics: | |if it’s not written it’s not law |norms | | |cultural values | |
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To CEO from: Elementary Division Manager Date: April 4, 2013 Re: Constructive Discharge This is a memo which summarizes all my findings in accordance to our former employee allegation against Company under Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964, Constructive Discharge. I have reasonably provided my details which certainly might help in making the decisions at corporate level and that would benefit Company. A: Constructive discharge is generally when working conditions are so intolerable as
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Harassment and Discrimination BUS:311 Business Law I Instructor: Marla Muse 9/26/2013 Many of us who are a part of the workforce wake up every day and think about what needs to be accomplished at work today? Work can be frustrating and sometimes enjoyable, at no point should an individual feel that their security is in jeopardy or also that they are being verbally attacked because of their gender, race, or age. With providing facts this will prove that there the law protects the working force
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