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Employment Practices

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Employment Practices

Employment discrimination is an alarming issue that can appear in many forms. Some

discriminatory practices include age discrimination, which may happen when employers prefer

youth over the old during hiring, thinking of younger people as tech-savvy or vibrant. Gender

discrimination is based on gender stereotypes or biases, a company may pay lower salaries to

female employees than their male counterparts, and it can provide fewer promotion opportunities

for women. Racial discrimination tends to cause imbalance among employees and can be

reinforced by biased employers who choose individuals of a particular race during recruitment or

promotional processes that determine compensation. Disability discrimination among employees

may lead to deny of accommodation to a disabled employee, thereby denying her opportunities

for promotion or creating an unwelcoming workplace.

Equal employment legislation needs to be more consistent nationwide. For instance, the

United States has three levels of employment regulation federal, state, and local. Federal

protections against discrimination include the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the ADA (Murphy

2020). Alternatively, the states and localities can impose extra measures to protect their

employees even more. Federal equal employment policies usually serve as the foundation for

anti-discrimination laws nationwide. Other states will then be able to adopt laws at their

discretion, adding an extra layer of protection compared to the federal standards. Local

governments can further tailor policies to deal with regional issues.

In conclusion, although a basic framework is set at the federal level, equal employment

policies can differ from state to state and even within local environments to tailor them toward
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solving unique problems while ensuring employees are protected against discrimination. The

mixture of federal, state, and municipal laws is meant to develop a total system that moves the

practice of justice employment nationwide.

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Reference

Murphy, K. L. (2020). Civil Rights Laws: Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section

504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973: IA v. Seguin Indep. Sch. Dist. 881 F. Supp. 2d

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