Discrimination Complaint Process
Complaints of discrimination should be taken seriously in any type of organization. No employee can be discriminated against due to his/her protected class such as: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap, sexual orientation or due to reprisal (No FEAR Act). The No Fear Act, with an effective date of October 1, 2003, requires that Federal agencies be more accountable for violations of anti-discrimination and whistleblower protection laws.
This paper will discuss about the process or steps taken when filling a discrimination complaint and the civil litigation process in an organization in the private sector.
Before we start, we must examine the laws that are enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and these are:
? Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;
? The Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination;
? The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older;
? Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments;
? Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities who work in the federal government; and
? The Civil Rights ...