Law 531 Week 5

LAW 531 WEEK 5

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LAW 531 Week 5

Discrimination Scenario Simulation

Introduction

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the most noteworthy act of its kind, which emerged directly from the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. Title VII of the act states that it is illegal for employers, employment agencies, and labor unions to discriminate in respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges in employment by hiring individual based on race, color, sex, religion, and national origin (Cheeseman, 2013). Discrimination was at the forefront of everyone’s mind during the 60s and 70s and many people believe that it has been eliminated it all together, but discrimination is still alive and thriving in our society in the work especially in the workplaces. The paper examines various scenarios of discrimination in workplace as they relate to Title VII reasoning.

Scenario 1

Discrimination exists in this scenario because “disparate-impact discrimination occurs when an employer discriminates against an entire protected class.” (Cheeseman, 2013, para.6, p.546). He has a prima facie case of illegal discrimination. The black firefighter is in a protected class because of is race. The black firefighter was singled out to take his bed with him when he transferred from one fire station to next because the fire chief, who was white, told him that the white firefighters working other shifts would not want to use the bed that the black firefighter used. Circumstances exist that support an inference of discrimination. The fire chief was directly targeting the black firefighter and never once thought that he might not want to sleep on the white firefighter’s bed. “Regardless of subjective bias or invidious prejudice, Title VII requires that employment decisions be fair in effect as well as in form and purpose” (Shih-Hsueh &...