Job Discrimination Case Study

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Who is responsible for Job Discrimination? -MT
Background
According to William H. Shaw’s Business Ethics 9th edition, we clearly know that Job discrimination mainly happened towards women, minorities especially in the U.S. (20xx, p404) The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a government session that responsible for enforcing federal laws for all kinds of Job Discrimination. According to EEOC, we know that there are 12 different kinds of discriminations, which are not legal in the U.S. and regulate by the U.S. government. The discrimination categories are list as follow:
Age Disability Equal pay Genetic information
Harassment National Origin Pregnancy Race/ Color
Religion Retaliation Sex Sexual Harassment
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According to the real world practice in the employment relationship, we can see that there is totally three party involved the employment process, which is the Government, employer and employee themselves. These three different parties represent different interest and point of views. For job discrimination, there is always issues and conflicts between the employer and the employees (job applicants). Government is a party that over watch and set regulations to ensure that these relations are fair and equal for everyone.
However, I do not believe that job discrimination is only responsible for government. In fact, in the real world employment relations, government can only be an official middle man that guide and try to settle problems. It is not really practical to rely on the government to finally solve all the cases regarding job discriminations. I believe that, in order to prevent and minimize the job discriminations, all three parties have to accomplish some task to make it work.
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There are still many limitations behind this government responsibilities issues, such as: Firstly, EEOC only due with employers with at least 15 employees. Secondly, EEOC has the authority to file a lawsuit to protect the rights of individuals and the interest of the public. However, they do not guarantee to file lawsuit in all case with discrimination. (2016) With these two major limitations, people find it government did not take a clear and strong point to against the job discrimination. With the employee’s number limitation, almost all the people who worked or trying to work as small business will not be protected by the EEOC laws. For the EEOC limitation in not file lawsuit in all the job discrimination case, may makes the employers to think even they do not pass the investigation they might be just “doing fine” and will not receive any

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