U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission Employers

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There are many state and federal laws and a number of supporting government agencies that seek to regulate the work environment for the protection of employee rights. One such entity is the EEOC—the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Please open file for instructions.

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Instructions 1. Go to the website U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission Employers at https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/index.cfm 2. Navigate to the EEOC website to review the easily-accessible resources that are especially beneficial for human resource managers; then respond to the questions and Assignment details below. NOTE: As you navigate the website, be sure to obtain information that will be needed for any references for each specific EEOC web page you plan to cite in the discussion forum through paraphrase or direct quote. a. EEOC Enforcement of Federal Law. Name one federal law the EEOC enforces and summarize that law in one to two sentences. b. Prohibited Practice. Review the list of EEOC Prohibited Employment Policies/Practices at https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/index.cfm and answer the following: i. Identify one prohibited practice and summarize that prohibited practice in one to two sentences. ii. Assess whether your company, or a company you are familiar with, (a) excels at prohibiting this practice, or (b) needs to improve on its prohibition of this practice. Explain. c. Pioneer Hotel Case Study. Read the following case study and provide your recommendations for how Pioneer can make improvements in the workplace. i. In June 2015, Pioneer Hotel, Inc. in Laughlin, Nevada agreed to pay $150,000 and furnish other relief to settle a national origin and color discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC. The EEOC charged that a class of Latino and/or brown-skinned workers was subjected to a barrage of highly offensive and derogatory comments about their national origin and/or skin color since at least 2006. Housekeeping and security department staffers in particular were constantly the targets of slurs by several supervisors and co-workers. In addition, the EEOC asserted that Latino / brown-skinned workers were told not to speak Spanish during their break times. Pioneer failed to stop and rectify the harassment and discrimination despite repeated complaints by the Latino / brown-skinned workers. Pioneer entered into a four-year consent decree that prohibits Pioneer from creating, facilitating or permitting a hostile work environment for employees who are Latino or darker-skinned. EEOC v. Pioneer Hotel, Inc. d/b/a Pioneer Hotel and Gambling Hall, Case No. 2:11-cv-01588LRH-GWF (D. Nev. settlement June 18, 2015). i. As the newly appointed HR Director at Pioneer Hotel, what are three (3) or more strategies you would implement to help remedy the current situation and/or to take proactive steps to encourage a future work environment that is free of discriminatory practices? ii. Identify biblical principle(s) that would apply to this case when drawing upon insight from the 1.1 Devotional and your knowledge and/or research of Scripture. 2. Provide a detailed post that demonstrates clear, insightful critical thinking. Your initial posting should be 200-300 words long. 3. Your initial posting is to include the appropriate references for each of the specific EEOC web pages you have cited through paraphrase or direct quote. Keep direct quotes and paraphrases limited to a maximum of 20% of your overall initial posting (40 words out of 200 to 60 words out of 300 words).
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Employment laws
Question a
One of the federal law that is implemented by the EEOC is the discrimination law under
Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964. It states that it is illegal to discriminate anyone by
race, color, religion, origin or sex. It reduces any form of discrimination in the workplace.
Question b
1. One of the prohibited a...