BUS 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Protected Group
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Picking up where we left off in the last unit. Reqs all employers to pay men and women equal pay for equal work: work performed with the same amount of skill under the same working conditions. Defenses: (for the employer: merit pay wages set based on performance, seniority pay been there longer, get more moneys, pay based on quantity/quality of production, legitimate factor other than gender. Title vii of the civil rights act of 1964. Originally only applied to govt. workers, however no application to private employers w/ employees > 15. Cannot discriminate in the terms or conditions of employment: based on a protected class, race, color, religion, gender, national origin. Different than race, applying only to skin tone. Does not include sexual orientations [as of date of this podcast 2014: many different bills have been passed since then. Country of birth of employee, or claim.
