Creating Opportunities for Everybody

EEO- Creating Opportunities for Everybody

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), is a federal law that prohibit discrimination in the workplace based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion are met, disability and genetic data. The EEOC also ensures the laws that protect people who have filed discrimination in the workplace or have been part of a related investigation or trial. This time, we are going to discuss the implementation of this law in a case filed against a Mitsubishi auto plant in Normal, Illinois. The problem in that plant was several violation and discrimination against female employees, African American employees and Hispanic employees. These problems destroyed the reputation of the plant and affected the name of the company. Also, took productivity to the lowest levels until the point that the Mitsubishi headquarters in Japan were thinking in close the plant.

After all, the company paid millions of dollars in law suit settlements to the affected parties. Also, they change the management structure to rebuild the moral values in the plant. The implementation of a new department that investigates, educate and monitor employees, in my opinion, was the key point for the company’s greatest change.

Having this case as an example, we can see how making changes like Mitsubishi did is important for legal purposes, but not only that, also improve the human resource management with the employees and managers as well as the productivity and efficiency of the company. First of all, the implementation of these laws helps the company to have a good and harmonious work environment. This is one of the most important things that a company should take in count because it cannot be anything more difficult for an employee that work in hostile atmosphere. With no doubt, that is going to be reflecting in the productivity of the company. If the employees feel good, then the production and efficiency is going to be good. In the Mitsubishi case, one of the consequences of the discriminations that they were doing to their employees was the collapse of productivity. From the legal aspects, avoid these kinds of conducts can save the company from many problems. Millions of dollars in law suit can be saved, and the name and reputation of the company will maintain an honorable and clean standard.

There are generally two types of claims for employment discrimination, disparate treatment or disparate impact. In disparate treatment, the worker seeks to demonstrate the reason for the discrimination by the employer. In a disparate impact claim requires that there is no evidence of intentional discrimination, but the proof that the employer uses employment practices that are facially neutral in their treatment of different groups but in fact fall more harshly on one group than another and cannot be justified as a necessity imposed by the business.

These disparate impact claims are recognized

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