Tim Rowe owns his own trucking company and has always hired his employees based on three criteria. They must have a high school diploma, pass a short paper and pencil test that they must score at least a 70 on and have a valid driver’s license if they are applying for the position of a driver. Tim was notified recently that 2 equal employment complaints had been filed against him and his firm. The complaints are from a woman that alleges the test does not measure a person’s ability to drive and is not a valid predictor of job success and the other is from a minority man that alleges that a high school diploma requirement is not related to his ability to do that particular job and that it unfairly discriminates against minorities as a whole. …show more content…
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 all prohibit the use of discriminatory employment tests and selection procedures. A fair selection process consists of judging people on their ability to do the job and not on the basis of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, genetic information or disability. Since Tim is the owner of the company he has the right to use any legal hiring methods he chooses to find the best person(s) for the job and the requirements are defined by him. The criteria are said to be applied to all applicants and not just a specific group of people and all applicants are held to the same hiring standard. To further evaluate the selection procedure I would need for Tim to provide information to help show that no discrimination has taken place and that it truly is standard for all applicants. Tim would need to submit copies of policies he has in place and provide files of employees for review of the test scores and ratings when it came to the selection process. Interviews would need to be conducted with randomly selected employees to provide first-hand witness account to what goes on in the office and confidentiality needs to be maintained so that no retaliation
According to Dessler 2017 Title VII established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to administer and enforce the Civil Rights Act at work. The laws that they enforce are as followed; Equal Pay Act of 1963, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, Federal Agency Guidelines, Civil Rights Act of 1991, Americans with Disability Act, and State and Local Equal Opportunity Laws. Dessler 2017 went into depth about each of these laws and there definitions that are about to be discussed. Equal Pay Act of 1963 states that it is unlawful to discriminate in pay on the basis of sex when jobs involve equal work; require equivalent skills, effort, and responsibility; and are performed under similar working conditions. Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 made it unlawful to discriminate against employees or applicants who are between 40 and 65 years of age. The Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires employers with federal contracts of more than $2,500 to take affirmative action in employing handicapped persons. Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 prohibits using pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions to discriminate in hiring, promotion, suspension, or discharge, or in any term or condition of employment. “Furthermore, under the act, if an employer offers its employees disability coverage, then it
Employers that base employment decisions, including hiring and promotion, on protected class characteristics are engaging in disparate treatment. When they do so overtly and argue that it is necessary to limit a particular type of employment to people with specific protected class characteristics, this type of disparate treatment is termed a facially discriminator policy or practice. An important, but limited, defense is available to employers that adopt facially discriminatory requirement is legal. If an employer can show that a particular protected class characteristic is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) for the job in question, the facially discriminatory requirement is legal. According to the Title VII of the Civil Right Act,
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects individuals against employment discrimination it prohibits discrimination agonists an individuals sex, religion, and color these are just some. The main concept of Title VII was to give individuals opportunity to enforce an equal employment opportunity. There have been rules under Title VII to make sure that everyone is being treated fairly Title VII states employees are supposed prevent
Landlords and business owners owe a duty to their tenants and patrons for foreseeable criminal acts of third parties that are committed on The approach to premises liability is based on the relationship between the parties at the time of injury. (ROWE) As the legal status of the visitor improves, the possessor of the land owes more of an obligation of protection. (ROWE). In Rowe, where an officer was injured while checking a vacant building, the court ruled that the landowners had a duty even though the officer was aware of the condition. The court reasoned in Rowe that the officer had the status of an licensee and the landowner owed a duty to warn of any dangerous conditions that the landowner new of or had reason to know and of which the officer
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects individuals from discrimination based upon their sex and makes it illegal for a business to discriminate against a person’s hiring, firing, and additional terms and conditions of hire (Alexander & Hartman, 2001). Title VII covers all private employers, government employees, and any institution that employs 15 or more persons. These laws also cover employment agencies, labor groups, and agencies that control apprenticeships and training.
The case of Griggs v. Duke Power (1971) brought to the forefront issues that Human Resource professionals may have to address within their organization. This case centered on disparate impact and disparate impact. Although these terms are used, interchangeable impact would prove to be significant in that case. This case centered around Duke Power openly discriminated against a protected class (blacks). In order to be hired into any department other than labor, the company required a high school diploma and/ or a passing score on two tests. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal law that prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, and religion. Despite this passage,
Discrimination within the place of work has been a concern for a long time now. Despite the fact that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits companies from showing favoritism to employees on account of their sex, age, race, and disability. Various employers continue to demonstrate this style of performance through the hiring procedure. American Disabilities Act also known as ADA was another organization put into effect after Affirmative Action. ADA is designed to defend and protect those individuals with disabilities. Both Affirmative Action and ADA were designed to create and uphold equality within
The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) is in charge of implementing government laws such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 1964 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), that make it unlawful to oppress an occupation candidate or a worker in light of the individual's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or hereditary data. (US Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, 2015) The laws apply to a wide range of work circumstances, including contracting, terminating, advancements, harassment, training, wages, and benefits.
The process of selecting a corporation to reach out to for a potential interview, the group decided that some basic criteria should be upheld during the selection process. The criteria for selection
4 Title VII also prohibits employment decisions based on stereotypes and assumptions about abilities, traits, or the performance of individuals of certain racial groups. According to Society for Human Resource Management, it states that, possible criminal practices include soliciting applications only from sources in which all or most potential workers are of the same race or color; requiring applicants to have a certain educational background that is not important for job performance or business needs; 5 and testing applicants for knowledge, skills or abilities that are not important for job performance or business needs (Society for Human Resource Management, 1969).This Act also prohibits offensive conduct, such as racial or ethnic slurs, racial "jokes," 6 derogatory comments, or other verbal or physical conduct based on an individual 's
The three most important laws that regulate discrimination in employment are The Civil Rights Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the American with Disabilities Act (Heneman, Judge, & Kammeyer, 2012). The Civil Rights Act was established in 1964 but was amended in 1991 and covers discrimination of race, color, and religion, sex or national origin, in addition the law prohibits segregation of any kind in regards to employment. This includes have pre employments screenings or test that negative impacts a particular group. The Age Discrimination Act prohibits discrimination against employee due to the their age; it is illegal to refused to hire, fire, or deny promotion because of their age as well as it is illegal to based compensation
Title VII makes it illegal for an employer to discriminate in hiring by a person’s religion, national origin, sex, color, or race. The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission is also responsible to enforce the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in employment Act, the Genetic Nondiscrimination Information Act, and the American with Disabilities Act.
Title VII states that an employee cannot be treated differently because of sex unless sex is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ). When used as a defense, bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) allows an organization to hire and employ individuals on the basis of the qualifications reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise. This paper will discuss the necessary steps employers must take in order to justify using sex as a discriminator when hiring employees and review some known cases where BFOQ was used as a defense.