Affirmative Action Plan Affirmative action is a plan to promote the efforts of employers‚ schools and other organizations to recruit and hire groups that have previously been discriminated against. It is important to note that affirmative action programs do not require employers to hire unqualified people for a job. Equal employment opportunity is used to describe policies that prohibit discrimination of any kind. Affirmative action is a program that analyses the make up of the current workforce
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CHAPTER 3 EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY LEGAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CHAPTER Overview This chapter describes the influences of the legal environment on HRM. Particular attention is paid to EEO programs that are designed to eliminate bias in HRM programs‚ especially as they apply to women and minorities. In my opinion using the analogy of the human body‚ the law is the “head” vital to the rest of the body. Likewise adherence to the law‚ and legal knowledge is vital to HR
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Part A: Questions on Affirmative Action What is Affirmative Action? Affirmative action can be defined by the set of public policies and initiatives designed to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race‚ color‚ religion‚ sex or national origin (Sykes 2009). The focus of such policies and initiatives range from employment and education to public contracting and health programs (Wikipedia 2009). These affirmative actions policies have been established in response to decades of
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Marielena Hincapie’s article “Let Us DREAM” from the Huffington Post‚ published December 10‚ 2010 explains the argument on the passing of the DREAM Act and how she and the DREAMers are hoping for a better future and that will happen if the DREAM Act is passed‚ Marielena is in favor of the DREAM Act. She is the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center she’s a public interest lawyer who protects the rights of immigrant workers as herself‚ she serves on the American Bar Associations
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On Wednesday June 11‚ 2008 at 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)‚ the Prime Minister of Canada‚ the Right Honourable Stephen Harper‚ made a Statement of Apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools‚ on behalf of the Government of Canada. Prime Minister Harper offers full apology on behalf of Canadians for the Indian Residential Schools system11 June 2008Ottawa‚ OntarioStatement of Apology PLEASE CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY The treatment of children in Indian Residential Schools is a sad
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Support for affirmative action in employment At the national level‚ the survey results indicate there is broad support for affirmative action as a form of redress in the labour market (Fig. 1). Over the 2003–2009 period‚ the share of adults in South Africa agreeing or strongly agreeing that there should be racial- and gender-based affirmative action in the workplace ranged in a narrow band between 60 and 70%. More so‚ the 2006 SASAS survey round found that 68% of participants supported the preferential
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Informal Logic Is Affirmative Action Fair? Brian Addis August 23‚ 2010 Is Affirmative Action Fair? Affirmative action was created to increase the number of people from certain social groups in employment‚ education‚ business‚ government‚ and other areas (LaNoue‚ G.‚ 2010). This policy is geared toward women‚ and minorities such as African Americans‚ Asian Americans‚ Hispanic Americans‚ American Indians‚ and disabled people. Generally speaking‚ Affirmative Action was put into
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Allen‚ L. Robert. Past Due: The American Quest for Reparations‚ The Black Scholar (Summer 1998) The Economist‚ “Slavery and the Law: Time and Punishment”‚ The Economist Newspaper Ltd‚ April 14 2002 Is now the Time for Reparations for African Americans? Since the first day Africans were kidnapped from their lands‚ to the whips that tore across their flesh‚ to the African Americans facing economic hardship. African Americans have been subject to these hardships by one factor; the white man. Their
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stanford.edu/entries/affirmative-action/ Affirmative Action First published Fri Dec 28‚ 2001; substantive revision Wed Apr 1‚ 2009 owned exclusively by above web source “Affirmative action” means positive steps taken to increase the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment‚ education‚ and business from which they have been historically excluded. When those steps involve preferential selection—selection on the basis of race‚ gender‚ or ethnicity—affirmative action generates intense
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being discriminated against in the workplace in terms of being hired or released. Executive Order 11375 meant that Affirmative Action (of Executive Order 11246) now applied to women as well. Affirmative Action is an organization’s active effort to find opportunities to hire or promote people in a particular group (in this instance‚ women). Affirmative Action plans must consist of an equal opportunity policy statement‚ an analysis of the current work force‚ identification of underrepresented
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