NAUMAN JAVED = 2161062

MAJID KHAN = 1007

-NAUMAN JAVED
-MAJID KHAN
 Definition
The unequal or preferential treatment based on irrelevant
criteria such as race, age, gender, color, religion, national origin
and disability.
 Ways Of Discrimination

• Recruitment
• Screening
• Promotion
• Termination
• Conditions of Employment
 Equal Employment Opportunity & Civil rights
Act
• Act of 1964.
Act of 1964 makes discrimination illegal on the basis of color, race,
origin, religion and gender.
• Act of 1991
Law states that job bias based on gender religion will be punished.
• Act of 1972
Amended the 1964 law & empowered the EEOC to enforce law
against complains from individuals and employees in the court
 AGE AND DISCRIMINATION AT WORKPLACE
• The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
(ADEA) protects individuals who are 40 years of age
or older from employment discrimination based on
age.
• Under the ADEA, it is unlawful to
discriminate against a person because of
his/her age in hiring, promotion,
compensation, benefits, and other
employment practices.
COMPARABLE WORTH AND EQUAL PAY

• The Equal Pay Act prohibits discriminatory payment wages and

overtime pay based on gender.

• The Equal Pay Act hold that women should be paid wages comparable
to men who hold jobs that require
-Equal Skills
-Effort, and Responsibilities
-Same Working Conditions
 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
-DEFINITION
It is a program to recruit applicants from
minority groups to create opportunities
for those who were discriminated in past.
• Affirmative action program is attempt to create jobs for everyone in
society & blind to color, gender, age and disability.

• Affirmative action programs sets goals and quotas for company to hire
& fire women & minorities in number of
labor force.
 FOUR ARGUMENTS EXPLAINING AFFIRMATIVE
ACTION IN HIRING PROMOTIN & TERMINATIONS
• Not justify when hiring unqualified minority over qualified white

• Qualified minority women will be preferred over equally qualified

white person.

• Qualified women can also be given a preference over better qualified

person to achieve affirmative action.

• Company must take equal progress toward achieving affirmative dal

even it is not mandatory
 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION

• Non discrimination requires discrimination.

- It means when minority women is given preference over more
qualified white men due to quota system.
ARGUMENTS AGAINT
AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS
• Individuals are being held responsible for injustices.

• White male group have to sacrifice or compensate everytime due to

affirmative action.

• Affirmative action discriminates againt age : white, middle-aged

males.
EXAMPLE OF REVERSE
DISCIMINATION
• Allan Bakke a white male, denied the admission of young students in
medical college because college was giving admissions to less
intelligent minority students due to quota system. He said it is unfair
for other students who move intelligent and later on he won the case.