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EMPLOYMENT LAW AND DISCRIMINATION
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Introduction
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Background
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Research questions
1. What role does the government play in ensuring that the freedom and rights of the
employees are protected by their employers?
2. What are some of the effects of employment discrimination on the employees and the
organization?
3. What are some of the mechanisms that can be put forward to deal with employment
discrimination?
Literature review
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Analysis
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Conclusion
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Running head: FEDERAL LAWS ON EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
Laws on Employment Discrimination
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FEDERAL LAWS ON EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
Federal Laws on Employment Discrimination
Introduction
Federal laws on employment discrimination refers to the state laws that prevent
employers from treating their employees differently based on certain attributes which are not
related to job performance. When government employers discriminate against their employees, it
violates the constitutional guarantees of due process as well as equal protection. When employers
from the private sector discriminate against their employees, it may conflict with so many
numbers of statutory protections.
Though all classifications do not qualify for protection against discrimination in the
workplace. In the current law, employees are protected against discrimination based on their skin
color, gender or pregnancy, country of origin, disability, religion, or even age (Donohue &
Siegelman, 1991). Again, in some cases, it is also illegal for employers to discriminate against
their employees based on their marital status, sexual orientation, and the political parties that
they are affiliated with.
Background
In the past, employees have faced a lot of challenges in their places of work. Some of
them have even been forced to quit their jobs because of employment discrimination. That is
why the government came up with laws to ensure that employers don’t mistreat their employees.
Some employers are not concerned with the welfare of their employees and this has made them
to give their employees very many duties to perform and sometimes fire them without notice.
Legislation on workplace discrimination (the Equity Act 2010) protects the employees from
unfair treatment by their employers. The protected characteristics that are covered by this law
include sex, pregnancy, race disability among others.
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FEDERAL LAWS ON EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
Assuming even classification is considered when it comes to employment discrimination,
many codes of conduct can also be found to be discriminatory, for example, the decisions that
are made by different organizations to hire, promote, or even terminate their contracts. It is also
good to understand that employers cannot discriminate when they are imposing work conditions
and work privileges (Sperino, 2012). Workplace discrimination can also be in the form of
harassment when the employees are trying to report or exercise their legal rights.
Research questions
1. What role does the government play in ensuring that the freedom and rights of the
employees are protected by their employers?
2. What are some of the effects of employment discrimination on the employees and the
organization?
3. What are some of the mechanisms that can be put forward to deal with employment
discrimination?
Literature review
According to a research done in the past, discrimination is divided into two categories
and these are direct discrimination and indirect discrimination. Direct discrimination is when
someone is treated unfairly because of a characteristic that is protected for example sex or race.
A good example, in this case, is an employer promoting a less qualified man and they are not
offering the opportunity to a woman who is qualified because they are women. Any employer
must therefore not ask their employees any question about the protected character...