Week 3 Law

1. BFOQ short for Bona fide occupational qualifications are qualifications of employment that the employers are able to consider while making the decision of hiring and retaining employees. The characteristics that it applies are that employers may discriminate because of "religion, sex, or national origin" if they can establish that there is a "bona fide occupational qualification. 2. The purpose of the Glass Ceiling Commission is to fix the issues that exist with the barriers that are around stopping women and minorities in the workplace from being able to advance. 3. The Federal Privacy Act was created in order to protect the private information of federal employees. Because of the act, no information of the employee can be released to anyone without his or hers written consent. 4. The Affirmative Action Plan requires all contractors who supply the federal government with goods or services to ensure that the hiring, compensation, training, promotions, and terminations would be done without having to be a matter of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The proof that it’s remedial in nature is it creates balance, only those that are qualified will be hired, it can only be applied until the objective set has been achieved and white candidates are not barred from being hired. 5. I would tell Reggie to file his complaint with the EEOC because based on information in Title VII where it states that “the "employer" is a person or business employing at least 15 individuals for 20 weeks of the year.” He has 15 days to file his complaint at the EEO Office in which he filed the