Employment Laws Chart
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Employment Laws Chart
Complete the chart below using information from the weekly readings and additional research if necessary.
| | |Court Case Influential to | | |
| |Description and Requirement of Law |Establishment of Law |Importance of Law |Workplace Application |
|Employment Law | | | | |
| |Outlawed major forms of discrimination|A series of cases culminating with |Equal voting rights and outlawed major |Provides equal employment opportunity |
|Civil Rights Act of 1964 |against women and racial segregation. |Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 |forms of discrimination against blacks |prohibiting discrimination on the |
| | | |and women, including racial segregation|basis of sex as well as race in |
| | | | |hiring, promoting, and firing. |
| |Instituted the federal Equal |U.S. Supreme Court case McDonnell |Ensures fair treatment to all segments |Makes discrimination in employment |
|Equal Employment Opportunity Act |Employment Opportunity program, which |Douglas Corp. v. Green (1973). |of society without regard to race, |illegal. Employment Opportunity |
| |is
Employment Laws Chart
Complete the chart below using information from the weekly readings and additional research if necessary.
| | |Court Case Influential to | | |
| |Description and Requirement of Law |Establishment of Law |Importance of Law |Workplace Application |
|Employment Law | | | | |
| |Outlawed major forms of discrimination|A series of cases culminating with |Equal voting rights and outlawed major |Provides equal employment opportunity |
|Civil Rights Act of 1964 |against women and racial segregation. |Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 |forms of discrimination against blacks |prohibiting discrimination on the |
| | | |and women, including racial segregation|basis of sex as well as race in |
| | | | |hiring, promoting, and firing. |
| |Instituted the federal Equal |U.S. Supreme Court case McDonnell |Ensures fair treatment to all segments |Makes discrimination in employment |
|Equal Employment Opportunity Act |Employment Opportunity program, which |Douglas Corp. v. Green (1973). |of society without regard to race, |illegal. Employment Opportunity |
| |is