GOODMORNING CLASS!!!!

CLASS COURSE:HUMAN RESOURCES AND MANAGEGEMT

GROUP 1

Ms. Karolyn BellMr. Maurice A. Dixon

Ms. Jasmine Singleton

Chapter 3:Understanding Equal

Opportunity and the Legal Environment

THE MANAGERIAL PROSEPCTIVE

-They should consider legal issues when making the following decisions

1. Which employee to hire2. How to compensate employees3. What benefits to offer4. How to accommodate employees

with dependents 5. how and when to fire employees

Why Understanding the Legal Environment Is Important

•helps do the right thing•Realize limitations of the HR and

legal departments•Minimize your firm potential liability

Do The Right Thing

•EEO Law(Equal Employment Opportunity)

•Requires male and female who do the same job for the same

organization to receive the same pay

Realizing the limitation of HR and Legal Departments

• If managers make poor decisions, the HR department will not always be able to resolve the situation

Limiting Potential Liability

• Financial liabilities can occur when HR laws are broken or perceived to be broken

• HR staff may monitor managers decisions

Challenges to Legal Compliance

• Dynamic legal landscape• The complexity or regulations • Conflicting strategies for fair employment • Unintended consequences

A Dynamic Legal Landscape

• Better know as Rapid Changes• Different courts have made differing decisions

about what constitutes sexual harassment • Managers will need to pay close attention to

unfolding developments

The complexity of laws

• Each individual law has regulations that can be lengthy

• Americans with Disabilities act is several hundred pages long

• There are 1,000 different disabilities affecting over 43 million American

Conflicting strategies for fair employment

• Strategy 1- making employment decisions to be made without regard of race, sex, and age

• Strategy 2- Hiring groups of people who have been discriminated on in the past

• These two strategies are conflicting, one suggesting blind hiring, and another suggesting employ certain categories of people

Goal: Fair Employment

Best way to make fair decisions is to disregard

• Race• Sex• Religion • National Origin • Color• Age• Disability

Best way to achieve fair employment is to make decisions on the basis of

• Race• Sex • Religion • National Origin • Color • Age • Disability

Equal Employment Opportunity Laws

• Equal Pay Act • Title VII of the Civil Rights Act• Age Discrimination in Employment Act • Americans with Disabilities Act

Equal Pay Act of 1963

This requires men and women who do the same job in the same organization receiving the same pay(no difference is acceptable)

Candidates

Sandra Williams • Masters Degree in field • Communication skills • 5 years experience • Clean Record • Highly Qualified

• Was not Hired for the position

Paul Johnson • High School Diploma• No experience • Clean Record • Partially qualified

• Was Hired for the position

Equal Pay Act

Permissible • Merit pay plan (an

employer can pay a man m ore if he is doing a better job than the female coworkwer)

• A company can pay a man more if he has been with the company longer

• Different work shifts

• If one employee has significant extra job duties

• Indicates that any factor other than sex can be used to justify different pay rates

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Title Vii prohibits employers from basing employment decisions on a persons

• Race • Color • Religion • Sex• National Orgin

Defining Discrimination

Simply means making distinctions

Title VII and Pregnancy

• Women are protected from discrimination based on either on their ability to become pregnant or on their actual pregnancy

• Requires employers to treat an employee who is pregnant the same way as any other employee who has a medical condition

Example

• An employer cannot deny sick leave for pregnancy related illness like morning sickness if the employer allows sick leave for other medical conditions such as nausea illness

Sexual Harrassment Act

Sexual Harassment Act

Sexual Harassment

Quid Pro Quo sexual harassment occurs when the behavior of coworkers, supervisors, customers, or anyone else in the work setting is sexual in nature and the employee perceives the behavior as offensive and undesirable

Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment

Occurs when the behavior of coworkers, supervisors, customers, or anyone else in the work setting is sexual in nature and the employee perceives the behavior as offensive and undesirable.

The Civil Rights Act of 1991

• Burden of proof• Quotas• Damages and Jury Trials

A. Punitive damagesB. Compensatory damages

Know Your Rights

• Age Discrimination in Employment Act 1967• Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990• The Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973• The Vietnam ERA Veterans Readjustment Act

of 1974• The Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission • Affirmative Action Plan

In Conclusion

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Discussion Questions 1

1. Has anybody experience any type of discrimination or any bad work

environment? Tell us about it

Discussion Question 2

Frank has been in a company longer than Jennifer and they have the same work

task. Should Frank’s pay be:a. =

b. More thanc. LESS THAN

d. NONE ARE CORRECT

Discussion Question 3

• True or False: Managers has 24 to 48 hours to report your case

ANY QUESTIONS