Equal Employment Opportunity Discrimination

What is the EEOC?

• Federal agency overseeing most employment discrimination law

• Federal agency regulating and investigating workplace incidents

• A group formed by employees to negotiate with the employer

• A group formed by employers to negotiate with employees

Employment law focuses on fair treatment in the workplace, of just some people.

• True

• False

Equal Employment Opportunity should prevent people from discriminating, but that doesn’t mean it always happens.

• True

• False

If there is discrimination in the workplace it is important to document everything and to file a complaint to the EEOC and the OFCCP.

• True

• False

It’s not critical for employers and employees to know and understand employment law.

• True

• False

types of laws prohibit job discrimination within the workplace.

• Employment Law

• Equal Employment Opportunity

• Labor Relations

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

laws put into place so there is equal pay amongst men and women.

• Equal Pay Act

• Fair Pay Act

• Total Rewards

• Labor Relations

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act outlaws employment discrimination based on your demographics. This means employment decisions, like being hired, fired, or anything in between, can not be based on the following:

(There could be more than one answer for this)

• age

• disabilities

• Veteran Status

• marital or relationship status

An employer cannot fire, demote, harass, or do anything against an employee for filing charges of discrimination.

• Pregnancy Discrimination

• Retaliation

  Discrimination

• Equal Pay Descrimination

• Age Discrimination

Employers cannot refuse to hire a woman because she is expecting a child.

• Pregnancy

  Discrimination

• Sex Discrimination

• Sexual Harassment Discrimination

• National Origin Discrimination