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The year is 2025 and the U.S. Supreme Court has declared all laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace to be unconstitutional. In its opinion, however, the Supreme Court made clear that employers could voluntarily adopt policies and procedures prohibiting any and all forms of discrimination in the workplace. The Supreme Court also made clear that employers could voluntarily adopt hiring practices to diversify their workforces provided such practices did not include express preferences based upon immutable characteristics.
You have been hired as a consultant by a large, nationwide retailer to examine the business case for ensuring that all of the employee protections are found within the federal anti-discrimination laws, as well as the business case for prohibiting any other forms of discrimination in the workplace.
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Running head: THE VALUE OF FAIR TREATMENT IN THE WORKPLACE
Assignment 3: The Value of Fair Treatment in the Workplace
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Introduction
Discrimination is referred to as the act of treating someone unequally basing the treating
on the grounds of race, gender or age (Sperino & Thomas, 2017). Since time in history, people
have always been discriminated. Either in school, during the normal day-to-day interactions, in
places of work and in many other places as well. Discrimination in the workplace or else referred
to as employment discrimination may come in many ways from hiring, promotions,
compensating employees to the termination of their services. Employment discrimination laws
aim at preventing any form of discrimination in the workplace (Mayhew, 2018). In the United
States, however, the Supreme Court has declared that all the laws and legislation that protect
employees from discrimination are not constitutional and as such employers could adopt
employment procedures that could assist them in diversifying their workforce.
Benefits and costs of voluntarily prohibiting three federal forms of discrimination
prohibited under the federal anti-discrimination laws
The three forms of discrimination prohibited under the federal laws are; discrimination against
Americans with disabilities which is found under Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), equal
pay discrimination found in The Equal Pay Act of 1963 and age discrimination found in
Employment Act of 1967 (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2018).
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Discrimination against Americans with disabilities
This form of discrimination affects any American who could be currently having any form
of disability or could have ever been affected by such in the past. Discrimination against people
with disabilities is mostly felt in the private sectors since when it comes to the public sectors,
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state employees are usually protected by the law even though they cannot sue the federal or state
government in the case of any monetary damages that they may experience.
The main benefit that comes with voluntarily prohibiting this form of discrimination is that
employers or organizations that succeed in the fight against discriminating people with
disabilities create a good corporate image for themselves since they have ensured that every
group in the society with the disabled people have been represented in their workplaces.
Moreover, research evidence has proved that most of these people though disabled in one way
are often blessed with exceptional skills (Owen, 2012). As such, employers take benefit of these
unique skills to the advantage of their or...
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