Law Chap 25: employment discrimination

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title vii

applies to employers with 15 or more employees- discrimination is prohibited on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender (includes pregnancy discrimination, constructive discharge, sexual harassment, online harassment)

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age in discrimination act

applies to employers with 20 or more employees

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intentional discrimination

plaintiff must be part of protected class, apply and qualify for job in question, be rejected by emplyer, employer seek more applicants/fill position w person not in protected class

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religious discrimination

reasonable accommodation as long as not affect employers business with hardship

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constructive discharge

Termination of employment brought abt by making employees working conditions so intolerable that emplyee resonably feels compelled to leave

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sexual harassment exceptions

  • Employer taken reasonable care precent and correct behavior

  • Plaintiff emolyee unreasonably fail to take advantage of prevent/corrective opportunties orvided by employer to avoid harm

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remedies for discrimination

awarded reinstatement, back pay, retroactive promo, damages, comp/punitive damages

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Age discrimination

part of protected age, qualified for positions, dischage bc age discrim (40 and over)

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disability discrimination

  • Plaintiff have disability, qualified, excluded from employment bc disability

  • Disbiloty= physical/mental impairment that limits majot life activites, record of impariment needed, regarded as having the impairment

  • Resonable accomodation: undue hardship, job app and premp physical exam, sustance abuse, health plan

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Bona fide occupational qualification

identifiable characteristic reasonbly necessary to normal operation of business such as gender, national origin, religion, not race

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