Exam 16: Employment Discrimination

Under Title VII, recognized races include white and black.

To help determine if a disabled person would be a suitable employee, it would be appropriate to ask questions about their medical background and problems.

Disparate impact employment discrimination is based on unintentional actions that cause employment discrimination.

Which of the following situations is most likely to have violated Title VII:

An employee joins a religion that requires members to keep a chicken by their side all morning and then cut-off the chicken's head at noon and suck the blood. The employer tells the employee that he may not do this at work. The employee claims he has the right to do this as a religious belief, so the employer fires him. If sued for discrimination, the court will likely rule that:

A plaintiff claims age discrimination. At trial there is a split in the testimony. The plaintiff and a couple other workers give evidence of discrimination. The defendant has employees who testify that there was no discrimination and that the plaintiff was incompetent. In such instances:

Affirmative action programs may be imposed on employers with 50 or more employees who do $50,000 or more business with the federal government.

Since some customers prefer to deal with people of their own race, employers may assign black employees to deal with black customers, white employees to deal with white customers, etc., under the defense of business necessity.

In EEOC v. Dial Corp., where Dial used a weight lifting test to see if people were qualified to do the work needed at a factory, and the EEOC said it discriminated against women, the appeals court held that:

Baylor University, a Baptist school, may require that all professors who teach Baptist theology be Baptists.

A county adopted a flexible affirmative action program with no specific quotas, but with the purpose of getting more women in certain positions in which there were no women. To accomplish its goal, the County hired a qualified woman instead of a man who had scored higher on a valid aptitude test. The man sued arguing the program was discriminatory. The Supreme Court held that this action was:

If a person suffers discrimination because of race and because of religion, he may file a complaint of:

Where there is a promise of a reward, such as promotion or pay raise, for providing sexual favors being demanded is called:

In general, employment discrimination laws in Europe and Japan, compared to those in the U.S., are:

A male model claims that his income is lower than it would be because of the domination of women in the modeling industry. He is capable of modeling women's clothing and sues the modeling agency for sex discrimination for not hiring him. The court is likely to find that he:

In Keith v. County of Oakland, where the County refused to hire Keith as a swimming lifeguard because he is deaf, and he sued for disability discrimination, the appeals court held that:

Under Title VII, officially recognized racial classes include:

Kelsey is being interviewed for a job and she volunteers that she has diabetes and has to occasionally take breaks to give herself insulin shots. The interviewer asks her how often she needs to take these breaks and how long the breaks take. These questions are:

A(n) ____ is a deliberate effort by an employer to remedy discriminatory practices in the hiring, training, and promotion of protected class members, when a particular class is underrepresented in the employer's workforce.

Which of the following questions would not violate the Americans with Disability Act to ask of a job applicant: