Illegal Discrimination in the WorkplaceSam is a law student studying employment law. He is currently studying the law concerning various types of discrimination. He realizes that all the cases he reads deal with clarifying the law on certain issues after the events. Sam wonders who is in the best position to be proactive and preemptive in the workplace to avoid many of these problems.Last week, you started to develop your legal thinking skills. Learning the law is a process. You could see from your case analysis that the law can have an impact on an employee handbook and HR issues on the front line with employees. This week, you will learn more about the main types of discrimination so that you can create procedures and policies that ensure a legally compliant workplace. TO DO LIST:
Discussion: Refer to the discrimination cases and articles from this week to analyze the different attitudes that the judiciary has taken with regard to each case.
What You Need To Know: Identify the main types of discrimination in the workplace and analyze cases where those types of discrimination are present.
Prepare: Begin reading your article on the topic you chose for your first assignment, HR Challenge: Contemporary Issue.
Prepare: Preview the interactive media, CapraTek: Capshaw v. CapraTek, to begin preparing for your oral argument project.
Discussion Overview
Refer to the discrimination cases and articles from this week to analyze the different attitudes that the judiciary has taken with regard to each case.
What You Need to Know
Legal Background
Read the course file, Legal Background: Types of Discrimination [PDF], for a basic understanding of the topic for this week. This background information is intended to support your learning like a section of a textbook.
Cases
It is recommended that you identify the main argument and decision of all of these cases by reading the abstract for each case. Then select one case to analyze using the IRAC method.
This is a brief abstract that describes a decision about how racial discrimination is linked to Title VII. You will refer to this article for your discussion.
This article addresses the fact that sexual orientation is not a protected status in the United States at this time and what might happen in the future. You will refer to this article for your discussion.
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Illegal Discrimination
For this discussion, refer to the following:
Sam is a law student studying employment law. He is currently studying the law concerning various types of discrimination. He realizes that all the cases he reads deal with clarifying the law on certain issues after the events. Sam wonders who is in the best position to be proactive and preemptive in the workplace to avoid many of these problems.Last week, you started to develop your legal thinking skills. Learning the law is a process. You could see from your case analysis that the law can have an impact on an employee handbook and HR issues on the front line with employees. This week, you will learn more about the main types of discrimination so that you can create procedures and policies that ensure a legally compliant workplace.