LEB Chapter 24 Discrimination in Employment

Treating individuals differently in the various aspects of employment (hiring, firing, promotions, awarding of benefits, wages, etc.) based on race, color, gender, pregnancy, and pregnancy intentions, age (40 or older), religion, disability, and national origin.

• Employment discrimination

• Employment appreciation

• Diversity

• Gender relations

Group characteristics that employers may not consider when making employment decisions labeled by the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• Employment discrimination

• Protected class

• Disability

• Quid Pro Quo

The law make illegal not only discrimination against protect class in hiring but similar discrimination in any “term, condition, or privilege of employment”.

• True

• False

It's illegal to discriminate in any aspect of the job e.g., pay, promotion, training, overtime, educational opportunities, travel requirements, firings, layoffs, etc.

• True

• False

This act forbids employers, employment agencies, and unions from discriminating in hiring, paying, training, promoting, or discharging employees on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex.

• Clayton Act

• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• American Disabled Veterans Act

• Title VI of the Pregnancy Act of 1938

An employer may discriminate in selecting one worker over another if the job requirement creating the discrimination ins necessary for proper performance of the job.

• True

• False

The _________ was created under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act giving authority to investigate and settle complaints of job discrimination. If necessary, it can also prosecute offenders.

• Affirmative Action Plan

• Scope of Protection

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

If an employer has discriminated in the past, the courts are not allowed to mandate an affirmative action plan to remedy past discrimination.

• True

• False

The _______________ must include positive steps aimed at offsetting past discrimination by bringing the percentages of minorities and women in the workforce up to the their corresponding percentages in the pool of qualified applicants.

• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

• Scope of Protection

• Privilege of Employment

• Affirmative Action Plan

Prohibits wage discrimination on basis of sex. Women who do the same work or equal a men must be paid the same rate.

• Wage Discrimination Organization

• Affirmative Action Act

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

• Equal Pay Act of 1963