Employment Law Chapter 3: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Laura is a qualified non federal government employee. During an annual performance appraisal, she is neither appreciated for her work nor promoted. She believed that her employer is biased against women. If she plans to complain against the employer, Laura must file a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) within __ days of the appraisal.

180

Federal employees who experience employment discrimination must file their claims with their employing agency within __ days of the discriminatory event.

45

Identify a true statement about mediation with reference to resolving Title VII claims.

A request for mediation is allowed at any stage of the administrative process.

Which of the following is not a basis on which discrimination is prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Age

What was a consequence of passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Anti-discrimination laws were enacted all over the world.

Which of the following was not an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that was made in 1972 and 1978?

Any labor law that protected collective bargaining was dismissed.

Identify the major drawbacks of mandatory arbitration agreements.

Arbitrator's decisions cannot be questioned in court unless they are fraudulent. Employees feel they have little choice about signing away their rights to go to court.

How did the South maintain its cheap labor force of blacks prior to 1964?

By instituting peonage laws that allowed blacks without the means of making bail to be arrested for virtually anything.

A person who brings an action alleging violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is called a(n)!__ or a claimant.

Charging party

With reference to intents of Title VII, the attempt to reach an agreement on a claim through discussion without resorting to litigation is known as which of the following?

Conciliation

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits

Discrimination in the receipt of federal funds on the basis of race.

Which of the following is a prohibition under the post- Civil War Statues, or the Reconstruction Civil Rights Acts, codified as 42 U.S.C sections 1981, 1983, and 1985?

Discrimination on the basis of race in making and enforcing contracts.

A laid-off employee of a multinational company feels discriminated against the employer. The employee is eligible to approach the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for redress if the __.

Employee is female.

Identify a term under the universal mediation agreements instituted by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Employers give their consent to have their claims mediated by the EEOC

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 concerns itself with creating the legal basis for non-discrimination in __.

Employment

The vision of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is to__.

Establish a fair and inclusive workplace for securing a strong and prosperous nation

Which of the following is not an area that the Equal Employment Commission (EEOC) has determined to Perdue in its 2013-2016 Strategic Enforcement Plan?

Focusing on addressing the issues that emerged in the past

Which of the following statements about the process of mediation with reference to resolving Title VII claims is correct?

If the parties reach an agreement, that agreement is as binding as any mother settlement agreement

Identify a correct statement about Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

It aims to prevent unlawful employment practices.

__ created a system of racial segregation that was practiced virtually everywhere in the United States after the Civil War.

Jim Crow Laws

Which of the following entitles should comply with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Joint labor and management committees making admission and other decisions.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) began a referral-back program as an approach to meditation in 2003 in recognition that

Many private sector employees already have mediation programs set up to handle workplace issues

It is specifically stated by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that the age does not apply to actions taken with respect to someone who is a(n) __.

Member of the communist party

What change in the workplace resulted from the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

More women were provided with meaningful employment.

Title VII of the Civil Rights act of 1964 gives permission to businesses to give preferential treatment to __ if the businesses operate in or around the associated reservations.

Native Americans

A feature of a 706 agency is that it __.

Processes claims for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and carried on its own state business

Which of the following individuals are covered under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?

Public and private employees

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act gives permission to __ to discriminate when performing activities.

Religious institutions

The case law in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act quickly became the most important arbiter of rights under the Civil Rights Act __.

Since employment in large measure defines the availability of other matters.

Identify the true statements about the state law interface in the filing process of Title VII claims.

State and local producers in handling title VII claims are similar to those of the EEOC. Local agencies serve as a type of screening process for serious cases

Which of the following is the lead federal agency for handling issues of job discrimination?

The EEOC

Which of the following statements about claims filed with EEOC is correct?

The EEOC must in some way handle every claim.

Match the federal agencies that have responsibilities for workplace discrimination issues in the United States.

The U.S Department of Justice: It handles cases involving most government agencies such as police and fire departments. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP): It enforces Executive Order 11246. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC): It provides guidelines to employers for dealing with employment discrimination laws.

Which of the following is a correct statement about Jim Crow Laws?

The laws regulated the separation of Blacks and whites in every facet of life from birth to death.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not prohibit discrimination in making decisions regarding which of the following? (training, hiring, benefits, all these are all prohibited)

These are all prohibited

Which of the following was not a restriction that was imposed on Blacks before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed?

They were barred from eating food in public

Which of the following statements about prohibitions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is correct?

Title VII prohibits discrimination in hiring and firing on the basis of of an employee or applicant's race or gender.

In 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a determination that discrimination on the basis of being __ is a type of gender discrimination.

Transgender

True or False: The political climate and the peoples in power in Washington at any given time can greatly impact the performance of an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission(EEOC)

True

True or False: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to federal, state, and local governments.

True