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Answer the following questions by Wednesday. Each question should be a separate post. Include the original question with your response.
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1. Review the list of topics that will be discussed in the course. Select one of the course topics (eg: Age Discrimination) and explain how learning about the applicable laws will be helpful to you in your professional life.
2. Chapter 3 discusses several amendments to Title VII. Select 1 and discuss how the amendment strengthened the protections under Title VII.
1. Review the list of topics that will be discussed in the course. Select one of the course topics (e.g., Age Discrimination) and explain how learning about the applicable laws will help you in your professional life.
I chose public accommodation to enlighten myself and broaden my understanding of discrimination; we take for granted daily activities that burden others. We need to be cognizant of these practices, so we are sensitive to others' needs. While civil rights revolve around the right to be free from unequal treatment, civil liberties involve guaranteed freedoms. Under civil rights law, discrimination is the unfair or unequal treatment of an individual or group based on certain characteristics. A people shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin. Places of public accommodation include a wide range of entities, such as restaurants, hotels, theaters, doctors' offices, pharmacies, retail stores, museums, libraries, amusement parks, private schools, and daycare centers.
Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination because of race, color, religion, or national origin in certain places of public accommodation, such as hotels, restaurants, and places of entertainment.
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination based on disability in the activities of public accommodations. We consider public Accommodations to be businesses, including private entities open to the public or that provide goods or services to the public.
Understanding the laws that govern areas in society that we may or may not engage or have basic knowledge about will help us become better citizens and avoid legal actions.
Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, L. P. (2019). Employment Law for Business (9th Edition). The United States of America: McGraw-Hill Education.
2. Chapter 3 discusses several amendments to Title VII. Select 1 and discuss how the amendment strengthened the protections under Title VII.
Employers had been feeling the effects of federal regulation in the workplace for some time. Among the regulations, wage and hour and child labor laws governed minimum ages, wages, and permissible work hours that employers could impose, and labor laws protected collective bargaining. As a result, our large corporations lead the charge for diversity in all global economics. Most employers accept the reality of Title VII. Some have gone beyond acceptance and grown to appreciate the workplace's diversity and breadth that the law created. Most of the work is fine-tuning what it means to not discriminate in employment and keep a reign on employers and employees who continue to engage in illicit activities. Since Title VII applies to employers with 15 or more employees, we must understand what is ethical versus the rule of law. The purpose of Title VII's protections is to "level the playing field" by forcing employers to consider only job-related criteria in making employment decisions.
The first section of Title VII states that all persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin. Additional sections of the Title go into specific detail on the kinds of places included in the first section, how people are to act and what the law can do if someone may not enter a place of public accommodation. Now came Title VII, prohibiting certain bases an employer could use to hire or promote employees. Developing from employment-at-will to these "intrusions" into the employer's sole domain of making workplace decisions. After enactment, it amended Title VII several times to strengthen it further. There were amendments in 1972 and 1978, with the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. The 1972 amendment expanded Title VII's coverage to include government employees and to strengthen the enforcement powers of the enforcing agency created by the law, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The 1978 amendment added discrimination based on pregnancy as gender discrimination. The act now includes provisions for sexual assaults, harassment, and domestic violence, etc. Title VII prohibits sexual or sex-based harassment. Harassment may violate Title VII if it is sufficiently frequent or severe to create a hostile work environment or if it results in a "tangible employment action," such as refusal to hire or promote, firing, or demotion. Society works best when each member is valued and treated fairly to contribute to building a quality of life without fear of retribution.
Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, L. P. (2019). Employment Law for Business (9th Edition). The United States of America: McGraw-Hill Education.