Essays on National Origin

After the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, the Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Schneider (2014) affirms that Fair Housing Act (FHA), was purposely applied to curb discriminatory housing patterns which were encouraging and upholding racial segregation and in the discrimination in the sale and rental of housing based on race, color, religion, and national origin. Schneider (2014) addresses that in 1974, gender was included as a protective class under the Act, intensifying the prohibitions of the act to the treatment and harassment of individuals on the gender perspectives. Nonetheless, the Fair Housing Act ...

Political Science

About the Company Opello Tyres is a brand name synonym with great comfort and design, which provides great driving maneuvering and experience. Opello is a tyre manufacturer and retailer having market presence in more than 45 countries. Opello has made a strong brand reputation in the tyre industry based on their 35 years of experience in building tyres of cars, trucks, two-wheelers, etc. Opello has approximately 130 corporate offices and 12,000 employees based in different parts of the world. At the end of the 2015-16 financial year Opello’s turnover was $4.88 billion. Opello is traded on the ...

Introduction to Travel and Tourism, Hospitality and the Judicial Process

1. A. In this case, Hanna can claim for the damages for the sufferings she met owing to the incompetency of the hotel. Hanna can claim for the compensatory damages, that will include the out-of-pocket medical expenses incurred, lost wages and damages for the mental and physical agony suffered. She is also eligible to claim for the damages due to loss of enjoyment in life, loss of consortium or companionship, inability to engage in sexual activities during the recovery period, loss of services that will include loss of aid, companionship and assistance of the parent or another person, etc. . ...

Abstract

One of the most significant milestone that has been done for the United States’ civil rights platform is enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These rights were enacted on July 2nd, 1964. It is through these rights that the rights of civil servants in the United States were assured of protection against such discriminations based on their sex, race, and religion, place of origin or color of their skin. This paper will in detail examine the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The paper will in detail elaborate on the meaning and significance of the Act as well ...

Workplace discrimination has been around for decades in most parts of the world. Discrimination refers to the disparate treatment of workers based on social and physiological indicators such as age, gender, race/ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. The pervasiveness of discrimination manifests in the adverse psychological, social, occupational, and sometimes physical effects that the vice has on the victims. Over the last four decades, several countries have enacted antidiscrimination laws due to the mounting awareness and public outcry regarding workplace discrimination. These laws, coupled with avenues for redress in the courts, have been effective in significantly reducing cases of overt ...

Abstract

The level of crime and violence in the society has increased significantly and many law enforcers have had to find a number of strategies to deal with the challenges of apprehending criminals. Racial profiling allows law enforcers to address the persistent national problems. Racial profiling is common in the society today as law enforcers and private citizens assess persons based on their racial, ethnic, religious and national origin. In many cases law enforcers often target person of color for humiliating and in many instances these targeted persons face the frightening experiences of being detained, interrogated, and searched because of ...

The LGBT Protection Act would provide the necessary federal protection to persons who identify as LGBT by prohibiting various forms of discrimination. It would be largely modeled off of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The overall purpose of the Act would be to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, education, and places of public accommodation. The Act would make it unlawful for employers or business proprietors to discriminate against LGBT individuals. As the law currently stands, race, gender, religion, and national origin are protected classes; however, sexual orientation remains unprotected. History shows that persons who identify ...

Discrimination Lawsuit: Disparate Impact and Treatment

Unfortunately, discrimination can take place in the workplace affecting the employees. To try to prevent these occurrences, federal laws have been enacted that prohibit such behavior. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin; it prohibits both in disparate treatment and disparate impact. Disparate impact refers to rules, policies, and practices by an employer that appear to be neutral on their face, but have a disproportionate impact on members of a protected class. Disparate treatment, on the other hand, is intentional discrimination (See EEO). If someone is the victim ...

Abstract:

At the end of an interesting series of lectures like these, one is usually left wondering: Why did the lectures have to come to an end? How shall I make sure that the lessons I learnt in the lectures remain vivid in my mind? Are there ways of inculcating this in real life situations? The lessons are supposed to be internalised so that they leave an indelible mark in the life of the student. In the series of lectures, we have been studying values, ethics and sustainability. But the question is, what are these? Do they exist in reality ...

Summary of Chapter Six

Chapter six of the book discusses discrimination along the lines of color and race. The chapter discusses this concept in a holistic manner delving into various aspects of the concept in various set ups. The following are the main topics discussed in the chapter: 

- History of civil rights and racial discrimination in the United States. - Issues of racial discrimination in today’s workplace

Under this topic, the author outlines various issues at the workplace. Racial discrimination at the workplace causes different emotions to the employees. Other issues like legal suits, arbitrations and job losses are also highlighted.

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1. Explain the Naturalization Acts of 1790 and 1870.

The act of naturalization of 1790 was the initial effort by the congress to develop an immigration policy. The act constrained naturalization to white individuals who were free and of decent character and had initially stayed in America for a period of two years. The 1870 act on the other had been an initiative by the congress to widen the laws of naturalization in the country so that it could permit the naturalization of African-Americans.

2. How do we explain that the majority of 19th century immigrant groups achieved social mobility while more recent immigrant groups have not?

Most immigrants of the 19th century attained high levels of social mobility as compared to immigrants today. In present day, there are dissimilar rules and ...

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Introduction 4 Recruitment Process in PepsiCo 4 Planning 4 The Process of Recruitment 5 Managing New Employees 6 Hiring Process (Applicant’s Actions) 7 Workplace Diversity in PepsiCo 7 Diverse Workforce Recruiting 8 Training of Applicants with Disabilities 8 Global Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy 9 Recommendations 9 Conclusions 10

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Abstract PepsiCo, as many other international companies, has a complex procedure of recruitment process that includes several steps: planning, process of recruitment and managing new employees. Each step includes many procedures that ensure compliance with the company’s regulations, ...

Recruitment and Selection Strategies Recommendations

Introduction Every land has its own law the saying goes. In the same breadth, every organization has its own recruitment and selection procedures depending on its goals. For this limousine business, some of the important aspects that need to be considered include workforce requirements in the coming years, forecasted demographic changes, projected workforce needs and government stipulations regarding labor.

Organizational Description

The main objective of the business is to offer Limousine services to the people at considerable prices. The business would operate car hire for necessary functions, and it would be based at Austin, Taxes. Considering the annual budget, the ...

American Employment Related Laws and Regulations

The Human Resource Department deals with several legal and safety laws as well as requirements that an organization must abide by in order to prevent law suits. This is also because the legal, safety and regulatory frameworks have serious implications on the human resource department. The laws and regulations ensure that all local and international employees have equal and fair treatment in the course of their employment. The rights of employees and employers are adequately covered by several distinct entities or institutions such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and National Labor Relations, among others. ...

Introduction

People around the globe are distinguishable because of tradition, culture, appearance, and color. Hundreds or thousands of years ago, people are divided with these distinguishes. However, exploration leads to discovery and many people from different parts of the world started to travel from one place to another. This then leads to mixing from one race to another but people often have different distinctions that gave them difficulties in mingling to another group. Pilgrimage made a nation so powerful like the United States of America but it also gave grief and pain to those subjects of slavery back then. Amendments after ...

Introduction

Racial profiling has been a national problem for America for a long time despite claims that the nation has passed that era. Racial profiling occurs every day everywhere across America when people of color are targeted by private security and law enforcement for frightening detentions, searches and interrogations without evidence that they are criminals. The detentions, searches and interrogations are usually based on perceived race, ethnicity, national origin or religion. Race and location are dominant characteristics that authorities look at when engaging in this type of profiling. This paper will give an understanding of racial profiling, the legislations and case laws ...

Constitutional Convention

Constitutional Convention of 1787 was a significant day in the history of the United States. Constitutional Convention set the future course of action for the national and state governments in the United States of America. Diverse factions and delegates from federal and state governments participated to formulate a constitution for the United States. Different factions represented at the Constitutional Convention with wide difference over numbers of issues, however, they all overcame the difference and finalized the American Constitution at the Constitutional Convention. American Constitution has been the foundation of the United States government for over two centuries. It defines the ...

Introduction

Workplace inequality can arise in relation to race and even gender. Moreover, such acts of discrimination can be perpetrated on an individual or at a structural level. Structural bias occurs when certain categories of people are given unequal status as compared to other people. However, individual discrimination refers to prejudicial treatment meted on a person because of certain features like their accent and gender. Therefore, the paper seeks to address the kinds of discrimination that exist in the company where Maria works as it is typical of what happens in organizations. Additionally, issues of unfair treatment, rights of an organization to ...

Introduction ANOVA The analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to compare the mean difference between two or more groups having same dependent variable. The analysis of variance is better than the t-test in the comparison of the mean sample of different groups. In this study, we are interested in determining if the bullying basis in terms of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability or weight. The ANOVA will be used to determine the difference in mean of the bullying in different type of the schools. Once it’s established ...

Introduction

In the book by Keith Finley Delaying the Dream explores gradations in the opposition and examines how the United States senators tackled the question of civil rights and developed a resolute plan of action to frustrate legislation by using strategic delay. Finley’s analysis passes beyond traditional descriptions of the pursuit of racial equality. He analyses heroic struggle, the filibusters, and the southern extremism to reveal the other side of the conflict. This paper discusses the evolution of southern resistance to civil rights legislation in the U.S. senate. It expounds on what worked, and what failed to work giving reason ...

Question 1

Mohammed Rafiq was born in India and practices Islamic. Nevertheless, in the workplace, his colleagues as well as hi manager keeps on referring to him as an Arab and essentially takes him to be an Afghanistan citizen even though Rafiq has told them on several occasions that he is from India. Harassment based upon an erroneous depiction of a worker's national origin is as unethical as harassment based on the worker's actual national origin. For instance, in Rafiq’s case, the colleagues made discriminatory comments regarding Rafiq’s religion simply because he was from a religion that they associated with a different ...

United States legal system provides a variety of legal obligations that are impacted when doing business. They entail the employment laws that are very essential as they are likely to be encountered by a company immediately upon commencing business and also provide compliance that is heavily regulated. The labor and employment laws in the United States are derived from a variety of legal sources that include: constitutional law, statutory law, administrative regulations and common law that entail unwritten customs, principles as well as rules and case laws (Cihon & Castagnera, 2011). The focus of the paper is identifying major employment-related laws and regulations, ...

Introduction

One of the legally required benefits available to employees is protection against discrimination in their workplace. This is the selected area which this paper proposes to examine. The U.S. Department of Commerce has categorized potential discriminations in the workplace as “REGARDS” each letter of which refers to race, ethnicity, gender (sex), religion, disability, and sexual orientation respectively as part of best practices in achieving workforce diversity in one of its reports. As such, the most common forms of discrimination in vogue at workplaces are the above said ones in addition to genetic information, pregnancy, and sexual harassment. If an ...

Introduction

Common types of discrimination at workplace considered illegal are discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender (sex), age, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy and sexual harassment. Sexual orientation is another form of discrimination. Discrimination refers to less favorable treatment of an employee compared to others because of the said predispositions. The U.S. Department of Commerce refers to these types of discriminations as “REGARDS” denoting race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, disability and sexual orientation in its report of Best Practices in Achieving Workforce Diversity. These dimensions do not cover lack of intelligence, height or physical attractiveness though it is now illegal ...

INTRODUCTION

Every company in the US needs to design its codes of conduct in the consideration of Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (FSGO). It provides an ethical environment to the organization which drives the behavior of employees at the workplace. The report provides an overview of the code of conduct of Quick store. Quick store is a merchandising company and has its retail stores in many states of US. The codes of conduct of three different stores will be discussed to design the code of conduct for Quick store. The factors that can influence the code of conduct of the company ...

Ethics constitutes the heart of organizations’ human resource management function (MacDonald, 2013). Human resource managers strive to address ethical issues in order to enhance smooth flow of organizational operations. Ethics refers to the branch of moral philosophy that deals with separating the right from the wrong to avoid organizational misunderstandings. Human resource management concentrates on business ethics to examine ethical principles and moral problems that arise in business environments (Simpson, 2013). Managers apply ethics to all aspects of the business operation to control the conduct of organizational publics and lead the business towards the right direction. Business ethics comprises ...

Introduction

In 2012, FedEx Corporation paid a whopping $3 million to settle the charges of discrimination against 21, 635 job applicants 61% of whom were female, 52% African American, 14% Hispanic, 2% Asian and 1% Native American (Greenhouse, 2012). Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal law prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion and national origin. EEOC is a federal organization which has the responsibility of enforcing this law. The EEOC statistics show that the highest number of discrimination charges ever registered was in the fiscal year that ended on 30th September 2010. Though Title ...

Discrimination is the disadvantageous treatment of an individual based on race, sex, color, age, religion, disability, etc. Although discrimination is publicly looked down upon in most countries, discriminatory policies and practices remain in every part of the world. In my opinion, several measures need to be taken in order to deal with discrimination. First, we need to tackle the root of this problem. Discrimination occurs when people in a certain group or category feel superior to those belonging to another group or category. To improve human relations in our society, each county, town, and village needs to build a community ...

- The information provided in the Statistical Abstracts of the United States Census Bureau demonstrates a peculiar variation in the levels of students. This is based on the diverse ethnic lines that exist in this country. From the data given the section of high school level graduates amongst blacks and whites presents a situation which has developed over time. For instance, in the earlier years of 1970, the disparity between white high school graduates and the black graduates was so high. In this period, white’s graduates from high school were 54.5 whereas the black’s counterparts were only 31.4. This ...

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Paragraph 1 (Introduction)

Thesis: Inequality in pay and violation of human rights against women are among the most prevalent practices in employment. Paragraph 2: unequal pay remain far too common - The Women who are working part time at the present earn about 38.4% less than what men doing the same amount of work earn. - For full-time workers, the gap is 17.2 per cent. - Women working more than 60 hours per week earn only 78.3% of what men in the same time category earn.

Paragraph 3: Protection against the gender-based discrimination touches all employment aspects

- In practice, the scenario is quite the opposite ...

Legal and Illegal Questions

Federal and state laws make it illegal to ask questions during hiring interviews that discriminate. Job applicants need to be knowledgeable about what questions are illegal in an interview and how to deal with the situation if it arises. Employers must find ways to comply with legal statues and still find ways to gather the information they need to assess whether a potential hire is appropriate for the job.

The Interviewing Process:

Attending an interview with a prospective employer is an exciting and nerve-wracking experience for job seekers. Adequate preparation before the interview includes acquiring knowledge and information about the employer, creating pertinent questions ...

Origin of the statute

Hate crimes are criminal activities motivated partly or entirely by the hostility of the perpetrator who perceives the victim differently (Jacobs & Potter, 2000). These crimes have great impact on the immediate victim and the group to which that victim belongs. Biases against the victim’s ethnicity, sexuality, debility, dialectal, or religion facilitate to commit hate crime. Hate crime statutes aim at stopping bias-motivated outrages. The federal and states have adopted hate crime laws in order to increase penalties for these criminal activities.

In the United States, hate crime statues began early in 1968. After the civil war in America, ...

Introduction

As a result of globalization and increased capacity of many organizations, there is much diversity in the work place where people from different educational backgrounds, race, age groups, abilities, genders, among others work together with common objectives in one organization. Employers are therefore required to create a working environment that is free from any form of discrimination and based on equality (Siddiquee & Faroqi, 2010).1 Employers can demonstrate this principle by ensuring that all people can access development opportunities in their organization irrespective of their differences in backgrounds and giving disabled or disadvantaged people an equal chance to grow in ...

Corporate Labor Relations

Introduction

In the year 2000, the EEOC filed a lawsuit against General Motors Corporations on behalf of a black female worker named Mary Scott. It alleged that Ms. Scott was subjected to constant sexual harassment and racially slurred comments from her colleagues. The GM management was further accused of either participating or tolerating such behaviour. In addition, a colleague of Ms. Scott, who had supported her case, was discriminated against. This was a classic case of sexual and racial harassment against an employee that belonged to a minority. Conversely, The Centre for Individual Right, henceforth known as CIR, in 2005 filed a lawsuit against the ...