In 200-250 words
- Do you think that a distinction should be drawn between religion and the other classes protected by the 1964 CRA, on grounds of mutability? The argument can be made that one can change an attribute such as gender with complex medical surgery, but even then, such changes are not typically recognized by law. Religion, on the other hand, is the only class that at least on principle could be changed at the option of the individual. What do you think the logical underpinnings of the law are insofar as “choice” is concerned? If some choices are protected, should not all choices be protected?
- Would you opine that Obama’s Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and all of the anti-discrimination legislation that preceded it is doing enough to combat gender-based pay discrimination? What would you suggest being changed or added to improve things, keeping in mind such factors as confidentiality of pay rates in the private sector and competition in the workplace?
You DO NOT have to use all these References
Employment Discrimination and Title Vii of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (1971). Harvard Law Review, 84(5), 1109. https://doi-org.ezproxy1.apus.edu/10.2307/1339795
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (n.d.-a). Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Retrieved from http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/titlevii.cfm
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (n.d.-b). Facts religious discrimination. Retrieved from http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/fs-religion….
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (2009, January 29). Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act becomes Law. Retrieved from https://civilrights.org/2009/01/29/lilly-ledbetter…