US Department Of Labor (NAACP)

Employment law moderates the relationship between employees, employers, unions and the government. Employment law is a broad area of the law that embraces all areas of the employer-employee relationship with the exception of the negotiation process covered by labor law and collective bargaining. Employment law encompasses Federal and state statutes and regulations. Some employment laws were set in place as labor legislation made to protect labor, and other laws provide protections in the form of insurance for workers, such as unemployment insurance. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is a federal administrator and enforcement agency of most federal employment laws such as those addressing safety and health standards and wages and hours
The NAACP is an African American civil rights organization in the U.S. Their mission is “to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination” (NAACP, 1). Its attorneys were very active, at first behind the scenes then after Title VII was enacted, they took very important cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. In their pursuit of economic justice and to bring awareness to the masses, they addressed the issue of employment discrimination. The NAACP was involved in the landmark case, Griggs vs. Duke Power, a disparate impact case. Duke Power had a history of segregating employees by race and the best jobs were reserved for whites. African Americans were consigned to the labor department, where the worker making the most wages earned less than the lowest paid employee in other departments where only whites worked. Just after Congress passed Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made it illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of race, Duke Power ceased to specifically single out African Americans to the labor department and introduced new policies around hiring, promotion and transferring employees. In order to work in positions outside of the labor department, Duke Power required a high school diploma or scores on standardized IQ tests to be equal
Steelworkers was about a company that implemented an affirmative action based training program in order to raise the ratio of black skilled trade workers. Half of the qualified positions into the training program were set aside for blacks. Weber was passed on for participation in the program. Since he was white, he claimed that he was the target of reverse discrimination. The question is whether or not the training program violated Title VII, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race. The Supreme Court held that the training program was legitimate because the Civil Rights Act did not intend to ban companies from taking steps to effect the purpose of Title VII. The intent of the program was to irradiate racial segregation while to not stop whites from advancing in their careers. The program was found to be consistent with the intent of the