PSY 440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Hostile Work Environment, Psy, Duke Energy
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It is illegal to discriminate in any employment decisions: This comes from the idea of a hostile work environment: "making the work environment so intolerable a reasonable person would not be able to stay. " Exceptions: religious organizations may prefer employees of their own religion, if the organization"s work is clearly religious in nature. A place of worship or religious school is clearly religious in nature. A private company that happens to be owned by members of one religion is not. *a catholic church can insist on only hiring catholic employees. ***as long as the organization"s work is clearly religious in nature: very small organizations (<15 employees) often are exempt. This is because it is hard to show a pattern of discriminatory decisions. You can legally discriminate in favor of native americans. You can legally discriminate if there is a national security interest. Disparate treatment and disparate (adverse) impact are two different things.
