Mastering Diversity: Managing for Success Under ADA & Other Anti-discrimination Laws

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Silver Lake Publishing, 1995 - 474 páginas
Shows business owners how to comply with diversity rules ethically while minimizing financial risk to the company; explains the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Includes worksheets and forms.

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Diversity as a Virtue
3
Disabilities
21
Age
85
Race etc
133
Family and Medical Leave
183
Gender Discrimination
231
Affirmative Action
279
The Effect of State Diversity Laws
331
Diversity as a Business
363
Appendices
371
Index
417
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Página 156 - Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to apply different standards of compensation, or different terms, conditions, or privileges of employment pursuant to a bona fide seniority or merit system...
Página 91 - It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer— (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin...
Página 145 - Nothing contained in this title shall be interpreted to require any employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee subject to this title to grant preferential treatment to any individual or to any group because of the race, color, religion, sex, or national origin...
Página 255 - The refusal to hire a woman because of her sex based on assumptions of the comparative employment characteristics of women in general. For example, the assumption that the turnover rate among women is higher than among men.
Página 39 - disability" means, with respect to an individual (A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual; (B) a record of such an impairment; or (C) being regarded as having such an impairment.
Página 91 - ... (2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Página 334 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
Página 44 - reasonable accommodation" may include (A) making existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities; and (B) job restructuring, part-time or modified work schedules, reassignment to a vacant position, acquisition or modification of equipment or devices, appropriate adjustment or modifications of examinations, training materials or policies, the provision of qualified readers or interpreters, and other similar accommodations for individuals with...
Página 333 - Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that any person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern or practice...
Página 269 - ... submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting...

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