Download Employment Discrimination Laws: Title VII, ADA, Age Act, Sexual Harassment & EEOC and more Quizzes Human Resource Management in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Title VII DEFINITION 1 -Prohibits discrimination in all areas of the employment process, on the basis of: Race/color, Religion, Sex, or National Origin (Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications (BFOQ)-Affects employers with 15 or more employees, government agencies, or unions-Doe not protect aliens not authorized to work in the US -Violations of Title VII Disparate treatment and Disparate impact TERM 2 Disparate Treatment DEFINITION 2 Employment practice that treat group members less favorably than others, either openly or covertly. Discrimination against individuals Discrimination using race, color, religion, sex, or national origin as a basis for treating people unequally TERM 3 Adverse Impact DEFINITION 3 Personnel practices that have a differential effect(impact) upon one or more protected groups. Discrimination against classes or employees/people Discrimination using a practice without business justification that has unequal consequences for people of different race, color, religion, sex or national origin, without actually using any of those classifications as a basis for treating people unequally. TERM 4 Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) DEFINITION 4 Employees have the right to seek reasonable accommodations to allow employee to perform essential functions of his or her job. TERM 5 Age Discrimination Employment Act DEFINITION 5 - Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of age against people 40 years old or older- All private employment with 20 or more employees and all unions with 25 or more members must comply TERM 6 Sexual Harassment DEFINITION 6 - Harassment on the basis of sex that has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with a person's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment - Enforced by EEOC under title VII- NOT only protect harassment fomr the other gener but also form the same - sex harassment TERM 7 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission(EEOC) DEFINITION 7 - Created by the civil right act of 1964- Responsible for enforcing non discrimination law in the US- Covers most employers with at least 15 employees TERM 8 KSAs DEFINITION 8 Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities TERM 9 Training Process DEFINITION 9 - Assessment = analyze training needs, Identify training objective and criteria- Design = pretest trainees, selects methods, plans training contest- Delivery = schedule training, conducts training, Monitors training- Evaluation = measure triaing outcomes compares outcomes to objectives/criteria TERM 10 Developing a needs assessment DEFINITION 10 - Identifies the gap between what employees should be doing and what they are actually doing.- Indicator = guest dissatisfaction, low moral, high waste, ect- Do SWOT to identify gaps- Task and behavior analysis- Individual Analysis- figuring out who needs training
