1. Businesses' Role in Providing for Equal Employment Opportunity
1.1. Avoiding Discrimination : (Disparate Treatment, Disparate Impact, EEO pOLICY, Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination)
1.2. Providing Reasonable Accomodation
1.3. Preventing Sexual Harassment
1.4. Valuing Diversity
2. INTRODUCTION
2.1. Regulation of Human Resorces
2.2. Businesses' Role in Providing for Equal Employment Opportunity
2.3. The Goverment's Role in Providing for Equal Employment Opportunity
2.4. Equal Employment Opportunity
2.5. Occupational Safety and Health Act
2.6. Employer-Sponsored Safety and Health Programs
3. Regulation of Human Resorces
3.1. Legislative, executive and judicial play important role in creating a legal environment for HRM.
4. Businesses' Role in Providing for Equal Employment Opportunity
4.1. The condition in which all individuals have an equal chance for employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, age, disability or nation origin.
4.2. Legislation
4.2.1. Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1871
4.2.2. Equal Pay Act of 1963
4.2.3. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (The law is enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an agency of the Department of Justice)
4.2.4. Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
4.2.5. Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (These organizations must engage in Affirmative Action)
4.2.6. Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974
4.2.7. Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978
4.2.8. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) OF 1990
4.2.9. Civil Rights Act of 1991
4.2.10. Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994
4.2.11. Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008
4.2.12. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
4.2.13. Executive Orders
5. The Goverment's Role in Providing for Equal Employment Opportunity
5.1. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
5.2. Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) : components (Utilization analysis, Goals and timetables, Action steps)
6. Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) - U.S Law authorizing the federal government to etablish and enforce OSHA standards for all places of employment engaging in interstate commerce.
6.1. General and Specific Duties
6.1.1. Request an inspection
6.1.2. Have a representative presentative present at an inspection
6.1.3. Have dangerous substance identified
6.1.4. Be promptly informed about exposure to hazards and be given access to accurate records regarding exposure
6.1.5. Have employer violations posted at the work site
6.2. Enforcement of the Osh Act
6.3. Employee Rights and Responsibilities
6.3.1. OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard and many states' Right-to-know laws require employers to provide employees with informeation the health risk associated with exposure to substances considered hazardous.
6.3.2. Organization must have Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs)