Age Discrimination: Bracing for Bias Since 1994, the ratio of 1:5 involves age discrimination with overall discrimination. The percentage of age discrimination cases rose from nineteen to twenty-four between 1998 and 2002. Its believed that wide spread age discrimination reaches people i...

Federal legislation dealing with employment discrimination includes the National Labor Relations Act of 1936. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that appeals to racial prejudice in a collective bargaining representation election constitute an unfair labor practice. The NLRB has also revok...

The U.S. Supreme Court has just dismissed a case that would have decided a longstanding question of whether disparate impact claims are available under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). Adams v. Florida Power Corp. What this means for employers is that, in the Eleventh Circuit at leas...

Sexual Harassment Discrimination Within the workplace there has been a problem that persists even today. With all of the education that today’s companies have done on the subject of sexual harassment, there still seems to be a high number of complaints filed. According to the EEOC, in the year...

Discrimination Against Women in the Workplace Since the beginning of time, women were regarded as inferior and treated unfairly. Their rightful place was considered their home and their occupation consisted of being a housewife, taking care of the children, and keeping their husbands content. Th...

The following paper is a brief summary of employment law cases pertaining to religion, national origin, age and race. The summaries contain explanations between the case and the statute or regulation pertaining to them. Each examines how the regulations have evolved pertaining to the individual case...

In the workplace there are two issues that are faced everyday that are costing the company tons of money as well as employees. These issues are sexual harassment and misuse of the internet while on the job. Companies have to intervene with these problems, by creating policies and restrictions. De...