Exam 16: Employment Discrimination

Under Title VII, it is illegal to perpetuate a past pattern of intentional employment discrimination.

Which of the following is NOT defined as a "major life activity" by the Department of Health and Human Services:

A person age 19 may not claim protection under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act applies to which of the following:

Reverse discrimination is:

If a person sues their employer under Title VII based on disparate treatment, they must show:

Under the ____, it is illegal to pay men and women employees different wages when their jobs require equal skill, effort, responsibility, and the same working conditions

Which of the following is defined as a "major life activity" by the Department of Health and Human Services:

It is illegal to pay men and women employees different wages when their jobs require which of the following:

In Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services the Supreme Court held that when reviewing claims of sexual harassment the courts should use "common sense."

Fact Pattern 17-1 Loretta worked for Minute Dry Cleaners as a cashier, and also did ironing when extra help was needed. Soon after she was hired, her boss, John, began to make suggestive comments to her. He complemented Loretta on her clothes and her looks. Several times, when they were in the store alone, John cornered Loretta and told her that she was driving him crazy, and that she just had to date him. Loretta told John that she already seeing someone and backed away. John cornered her again. He told her that he had waited long enough, and that if she wanted to keep her job she was going to have to "put out." He grabbed her arm, but she got away to the counter. She told John to keep away from her. He laughed, and asked her what she was going to do. He said he knew she needed the job, because she was fired from her previous jobs for drug problems. If she didn't get along with him, he would fire her and tell people it was because she came to work stoned. Loretta quit the next day. She filed a complaint against John with the local EEO office. John told EEO he fired Loretta was because of her drinking on the job. He referred them to Loretta's past work record which showed a drug problem. Loretta insisted that John harassed her and that she had not been drinking while at Minute. -Refer to Fact Pattern 17-1. If a court applied the standard from Harris v. Forklift Systems, to Loretta's case, what would the outcome be?

The EEOC receives almost 22,000 Title VII complaints each year.

The common law permits employers to hire and fire, within contractual limits, at-will.

The most important source of discrimination in employment rules is Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

In Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders the Supreme Court noted that in a case where discrimination in the workplace is claimed, and the employee quits and claims constructive discharge for hostile environment:

Intersectional discrimination refers to the claim that:

Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act employers:

In Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services the Supreme Court held that a claim of same-sex sexual harassment does not fall under Title VII.

Executive Order 11246 requires all:

In U.S. v. Paradise the Supreme Court held that a court ordered affirmative action program that required the Alabama highway patrol to make sure that 25 percent of all employees at all ranks were African-Americans was too extreme.