How they affect your employment practices, and procedures. Federal and state employment laws regulate questions you can ask possible job candidates to how employees are treated. Here are a few Federal employment and labor laws that could affect your business (All Law, 2015). Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin (All Law, 2015). Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 is an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
To solve this problem Air Canada outsourced the whole IT department to IBM and other vendors, except the core IT group to monitor the company’s IT standards and policies. The second major changes took place in 2011, when they decided to restructure their functional units to achieve new strategic objectives that will increase operational excellence and customer satisfaction. In order to expand, Air Canada needs to launch new low cost airlines and start an aggressive global advertisement campaign to establish Air Canada as a new brand in the airline industry. Even though Air Canada’s decision to outsource the part of IT department was to reduce cost and focus on core business activities, but the main motivation behind it was to open new opportunities for innovation. In 2003, this airline company began to implement a multiple-vendor strategy in order to benefit from best and experienced vendors and their products.
The fourteenth amendment has been used to successfully used to fight against segregation and discrimination because while states have dominion over those peoples and those facilities within their confines they cannot discriminate against those people because those people are in large, part of the United States, and those in the United States have uninalienble rights granted to them by the Constitution that no state can take away. Martin Luther King’s nonviolent acts of direct civil disobedience held a large impact on the civil rights movement. He showed that you could directly take action against laws you thought were unjust in a civil peaceful manner of descent. In 1896 Justice John Harlan spoke out against segregation saying that “Our Constitution is color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among its citizens.” The Constitution should be blind to the color of your skin, to your religion, to your gender, and anything else that tries to label you in a way other than U.S. citizen. In regards to the economy the role of gender should not apply, but it usually does though not usually through intentional discrimination.
Equality protects people from being discriminated against on the grounds of group membership i.e. sex, race disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, or age. Diversity for the workforce is about valuing and reaping the benefits of a varied workforce that makes the best of an individual’s skills and talents whatever their backgrounds. I work for a large City Council who has in place an Equality and Diversity Policy. As a public body they must also comply with the Equality Duty, this ensures that they consider the needs of all individuals in their daily work, in their employees and in delivering services.
Affirmative Action is a program of opportunity around the world, especially in America, not a program of discrimination. It has allowed women and other minorities to gain access to higher education and professional jobs. It is a program which has the society more racial aware, and as a result, more equal. Affirmative Action is a policy or program that seeks to redress past discrimination by increasing the opportunities for underrepresented groups, as in employment. The roots of affirmative action in employment lie in a set of Executive Orders that were issued by the U.S. presidents in the 1960s.
According to American law (1964 Civil Rights Act, Title VII) discrimination is prohibited ‘by covered employers on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin’. Mr Sing’s business would be regarded as a ‘covered employer’ and therefore not exempt. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission define race discrimination as ‘treating someone (an applicant or employee) unfavourably because he/she is of a certain race or because of personal characteristics associated with race such as hair texture, skin colour, or certain facial features’ (2011). The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also state ‘The law forbids discrimination when it comes to any aspect of employment, including hiring, firing, pay, job assignments, promotions, layoff, training, fringe benefits, and any
This order declared that federal contractors should “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during their employment, without regard to race, creed, color or national origin.” Thus, the original goal of the civil rights movement had been 'color-blind' laws. However, many people believed that simply ending a long-standing policy of discrimination did not go far enough and more proactive measures to increase equality were necessary. As President Lyndon B. Johnson stated in a 1965 speech, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and say, 'you are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.” I suppose this is what Eastland meant by finding the constraints of colorblind law inconvenient and the spread of preferential treatment. Yet his choice of words when describing these events in history leads one to believe that the founders he so contrarily speaks of had a personal motive in establishing affirmative action, when in fact, both “founders” were white political figures who had nothing to gain from the enactment but to try to
Title VII Paper MGT/434 – Employment Law University of Phoenix Jeff Herring Monday, August 22nd, 2011 Title VII Paper Introduction There are many rules and regulations that must be followed in the workplace. Some rules are beneficial to the employees while other rules benefit the employer. Overall rules are made to make sure that there is fairness within an organization. Discrimination is something that continues to happen in our workplaces. It will never be extinguished but laws and regulations can hold them accountable for acting on those discriminations.
The Equal Pay Act The EPA or the Equal Pay Act is a federal law that forbids discrimination based on the gender in the wages payment. The congress acted the EPA, as a revision of the Fair Labor Standards Act, to revise the conditions of the established pay inequities that is present according to gender, particularly to solve the disparity in wages encountered by women. The EPA, made the following results about the gender-based wage disparities (Manning, 1996): Oppresses the laving standards and wages for employees needs for efficiency and health. Avoids the ultimate use of the accessible resources. Possible cause of disputes in labor, therefore obstructing, affecting and burdening business.
Diversity therefore consists of visible and non-visible factors, which include personal characteristics such as background, culture, personality and work-style in addition to the characteristics that are protected under discrimination legislation in terms of race, disability, gender, religion and belief, sexual orientation and age.By recognising and understanding our individual differences and embracing them, and moving beyond simple tolerance, we can create a productive environment in which everybody feels valued. Equality: Equality means treating people in a way that is appropriate for their needs. For example, if Michael Flanders wanted to board the plane, it would be no good saying to him, “you have the same stairs as everybody else”. What is needed is a way of getting on the plane that will suit everybody’s needs without showing them up and treating them in a way that is worse than other people. Inclusion: Educational inclusion is about equal opportunities for all pupils, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, attainment and background.