MGT 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fide, Divergent Thinking, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
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Chapter 3: the legal environment and diversity management. Discrimination: the act of making distinction or choosing one thing over another; in hr it is making distinctions among people. Illegal discrimination: the act of making distinctions that harm people and that are based on those people"s membership in a protected class: a users guide to managing people: the ouch test. 4/5 rule: a test used by various federal courts, the department of labor and the. Eeoc to determine whether disparate impacts exists in an employment test: has job relatedness: action must relate to the essential job functions. Equal pay act of 1963: requires that woman get paid equal to men if they are doing the same work. Equal is defined as equal skill, effort, and responsibility . Title vii of the civil rights act of 1964 (cra): prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in all areas of the employment relationship: types of discrimination.