EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION

CHAPTER 19

EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION

1. What are the primary provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as outlined in your book?

2. What is the procedure for a person to file a lawsuit against his/her employer for violation of the Civil Rights Act? Can that person file directly in court? What must that person do first?

3. What are the important provisions of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?

4. What are the 2 types of sexual harassment? Define each including the elements

required to prove each and give an example of each.

5. What protection is included in all employment discrimination laws that helps prevent anemployee who files a complaint from losing their job or other punishment? Give a scenario that would be a violation of this protection.

6. What are the primary provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act?

7. List 6 disabilities that would be protected under the ADA. List 2 conditions that would

not be covered under the ADA.

8. What is the standard an employer must meet to an employee or potential employee with

a disability? Give an example. What is not required? Give an example.

9. Give an explanation of the shifting burden of proof in a cause of action under the Civil

Rights Act. Describe how that works in a case where a woman is suing her employer for

reduced salary below her male counterparts. After 10 years of employment on an assembly

line, she discovers that she is earning less than 5 men that have been working for that same

employer for only 6 years.

10. What remedies are available in employment discrimination cases? What are punitive

damages? Are they available in these types of cases? Under what circumstances?

11. Define: disparate treatment

Disparate impact

EEOC

Essential job function

Quid pro quo harassment

Prima facie case

Affirmative action