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Resolved Question: What do you think of this?

It won't really matter any more een for misdemeanors, as most companies are now doing a back ground check. So then you are SOL any way. First of all, I want to point out that there are a lot of misconceptions being reiterated here, so I am posting to clarify several issues. Now I have been hearing about this new law, too. Mostly as a rumor. I haven't had time to check this out. But there is a very good reason behind taking the question off of applications. It is illegal by Federal Law to deny employment based on a crime that is not "substantially related" to the position's duties. There are some exceptions to this law, mostly healthcare, education/childcare, and law enforcement, but really not many. http://www.hirenetwork.org/fed_occ_restrictions.html There are also a lot of state restrictions, so knowing your states policies is also important. But here is the real issue: An employer cannot discriminate against the person for a crime not related to the position (with some exceptions), BUT is legally allowed to ask these questions on the application. So the ex-offender then finds him/herself in a Catch 22 situation: If the applicant lies, s/he risks being fired for being dishonest if hired and the lie is discovered. If they indicate that they did commit a crime, there is a very good chance that the employer will just file the application away. If ever asked, the employer will state that the person's qualifications weren't as good as other applicants and they were not considered. In other words they will lie, thereby breaking the law themselves! That is the irony of the situation. And with these circumstances the ex-offender can't win! So what is happening is that employers are discriminating and therefore breaking the law WHOLESALE. This is something that is entrenched in the corporate culture of most bigger companies. It goes all the way to the top! They all know that they are breaking the law, but there really isn't any way to catch them! So the discrimination that is taking place is not enforceable. The way the system works now is that they are supposed to make their hiring decisions without any consideration of any criminal record whatsoever. They are supposed to hire based on the applicants job-related merits (with exception to any affirmative action, but that's a whole different topic). They are supposed to make an offer BEFORE any drug tests or background checks are done, the actual hiring contingent upon the results. If the applicant accepts a job offer, then they run the tests and checks. When the results are obtained, they may reconsider based on the results and withdraw the offer. If this is done, they are REQUIRED BY LAW to issue what is called an "adverse action letter". The "adverse action letter" explains why an employment offer was withdrawn, and is legally binding. If a person was denied employment due to a conviction that wasn't "substantially related" to the position, they have a great case in Civil Court for employment discrimination. Every major corporation that I have dealt with has followed this policy quite strictly. The problem is that they usually don't have to deal with the dilemna of hiring ex-offenders because of the Catch 22 I mentioned above: Honesty equals no job interview, dishonesty equals an "adverse action letter" for lying on the application. So basically the only way to enforce the law is to remove the questions about criminal convictions from the applications altogether. Would the companies like this? Hell no! But it appears that somebody has finally realized that the companies are breaking the laws themselves to discriminate against ex-offenders. So how are they any better? And the public is getting sick and tired of corporate corruption, anyways. So that, in a nutshell, is the reason why they *might* be taking these questions off of applications. And even though I haven't verified whether this is true or not, it makes sense. :idea: I think initially that the real winners in this are going to be the ex-offenders and, of course, the employment lawyers. There will be a lot of lawsuits, especially initially. Eventually the companies will benefit after they get tired of getting socked with discrimination lawsuits and non-compliance fines, and finally are shown that hiring an ex-offender isn't much different than a non-offender. And finally society as a whole will benefit when there is less crime and recidivism due to lack of opportunity for ex-offenders, and hiring a former offender becomes less of an issue. more

Resolved Question: piercings and work???? what do u think...?

okay, i understand that most job settings wont allow any piercings that show (like face, tongue, or even ear piercings) or any that they know about...but i was thinking about it the other day... according to Equal Opportunity Employer, they cant NOT hire based on race, religion, gender, age, etc.... but nose and tongue piercings are part of religion for some people and their culture... soo does that mean that the employer, who doesn't like facial piercings, can say no to a person , who soley has these piercings for a religious matter?... that would go against the law..and that person could sue them for it, right?... but i understand why most employers dont hire ppl like this, cuz there are tons of people with these piercings just 2 have them, and arent for any real reason, but still, when they look at a person adn say no piercings, its like a slap in the face to them if its religious or traditional...i mean, its not like they ask why they have a piercing, and if this is so, then why dont employers just hire ppl with piercings and stop being so judgemental?,, i mean most ppl have the Choice whether or not to have their piercing in.... but what if they dont?.. i dont think that should hinder anyone getting a job.. more

Resolved Question: Employing friends and family, how does it fit in with Equal Opportunity?

I work for a multi million pound company, one of the managers has been able to get his son, his wife and his son-in-law very good jobs there too, dispite them lacking in experience or qualifications for the job rolls. I've been there 20 years but my pay has been reduced even though I have been re-trained and got more qualifications. My boss says if you don't like the money, go and find another job elsewhere. But his son-in-law just started working there 3 months ago and gets £100 a week more than I do (he earns what I did 8 years ago). Apparently it is not illegal to lower employees salaries, dispite them progressing qualifications wise. Also my employer keeps adding extra tasks onto my job roll, but without adding extra pay. Do you think I am just winging, or do I have a point? UK.Thank you Ankita, that is good advice, I have only ever had this job since school, and I have a very secure position, but it is not a very fair company.Thank you Raven 3 I had not heard of nepotism or cronyism until you mentioned it and I had a read up on the subject.Thank you Raven 3 I had not heard of nepotism or cronyism until you mentioned it and I had a read up on the subject.Thank you Raven 3 I had not heard of nepotism or cronyism until you mentioned it and I had a read up on the subject. more

Resolved Question: define: political science?

Tell me how at least one of these federal regulatory agencies directly affect your daily life. Doesnt have to be one listed. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC): enforces federal safety standards Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): establishes and enforces pollution standards Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC): administers and enforces Title VIII or the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (fair employment) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): regulates and promotes air transportation safety, including airports and pilot licensing Federal Communications Commission (FCC): regulates interstate and foreign communication by radio, telephone, telegraph, and television Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): insures bank deposits, approves mergers, and audits banking practices Federal Reserve System (the FED): regulates banking; manages the money supply Federal Trade Commission (FTC): ensures free and fair competition and protects consumers from unfair or deceptive practices Food and Drug Administration (FDA): administers federal food purity laws, drug testing and safety, and cosmetics Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC): enforces federal laws concerning transportation that crosses state lines National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): prevents or corrects unfair labor practices by either employers or unions Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC): licenses and regulates non-military nuclear facilities Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): develops and enforces federal standards and regulations ensuring working conditions Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): administers federal laws concerning the buying and selling of securities more

Voting Question: My wage has been lowered for no reason?

my employer in London shifted me to another office I applied to work to, my former job was on £7.00 per hour while a friend in the new office told he was paid £8.00 per hour (and still is). however when I was shifted there, my pay remained £ 7.00 for a more demanding job ! they just want to save money because of the recession !!!!! I raised this with my manager and HR and both said "take it or leave it", can I pressurize them to conform my wage under Equal Opportunities and Equal Pay Act 1970 ? will I risk anything if I threaten court action while still inside the company? I called the Union that said that they can't do much about that, they deal with law not with negotiating salaries, they told any answer is appreciated and thanked for in advanceHi Shane, thanks for your answer. what is EPA? anyway the other guys are that get more than me are white and male (like me) but we perform exactly the same tasks. is it possible this can't be applied to law?? more

Resolved Question: Are they correct - illegal application?

I work at a very small police department, and we just got this letter from some attorney... was wondering if anyone knows the law concerning this and if we are really violating them. Thanks! ----------------- This letter is a formal protest against your hiring practices, which we believe are unethical and illegal. On February 18, 2009 our client possessed an employment application for a position as a police officer with your department. While our client was filling out his application, he discovered the following questions, which are illegal under 42 U.S.C. Section 12112(d)(2)(A) of the Americans with Disabilities Act: 1) Describe in your own words the frequency and extent of your use of alcoholic beverages. 2) Describe the level, frequency and circumstances surrounding any use of marijuana or use of drugs not prescribed by a physician. Our client had a good faith belief that such questions were improper and he refused to answer them. As a result, our client was unable to provide his signature to certify that there were no omissions, as required on your application. The application also requires that “ALL blanks must be filled in,” and that questions are to be filled out “completely and [to] check your answers before submitting.” Thus, your requirements prevented our client the ability to submit his employment application, on the basis that it was incomplete. As a result of our client’s refusal to answer the unlawful questions, he was unfairly denied an equal opportunity to apply for said job and participate any further into the hiring process. Based on this, we believe our client has been victimized by discrimination, since our client is highly qualified for the police officer position and was never given an adequate opportunity to display his qualifications. Under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), it is unlawful to ask such disability-related questions on employment applications. A law enforcement agency may not ask at the pre-offer stage about the frequency of past illegal drug use; whether the applicant has ever been addicted to drugs; or undergone treatment for addiction. Additionally, a law enforcement agency may not ask at the pre-offer stage about the frequency of past or present alcohol use; whether the applicant has ever had an alcohol addiction; or undergone treatment for addiction. You may argue that the use of alcohol or illegal drugs may be a “disqualifer” for police applicants, on the basis of integrity. We believe that a “disqualifer” of this nature possibly could generally be appropriate, as it may be job-related and consistent with business necessity (though it may not be appropriate for an applicant who has been a successful police officer for several years). You may argue that your questions regarding the frequency and extent of alcohol/illegal drug use are solely to determine the integrity of an applicant, not to determine an addiction [disability]. We disagree, because if that was your true intent, then you would have followed the same context for these questions located on your pre-employment personal history application: -Were you EVER accused of dishonesty by ANY of your Employers? -Have you EVER sold or bought ANY stolen property? -While employed with any law enforcement agency, did you commit any felony or major misdemeanor offense(s)? -Have you physically abused any prisoner? -Have you ever resigned while under any internal affairs investigation(s)? -Since you went to work for any law enforcement agency have you used any illegal drugs? (narcotics, marijuana, controlled substance) -Have you ever confiscated any prisoner’s property and make personal use of it? -Did you or have you ever used you office or position for personal gain, revenge or illegal matter? -Have you ever taken a bribe? -Did you ever sleep while on duty? -Did you ever do anything for which, should a supervisor have found out, you could have been fired? In those questions, you never ask how many times the applicant performed the actions. A simple answer of “yes” to any of those questions would indicate an applicant lacking integrity. Any illegal drug use would indicate that an applicant is lacking integrity; therefore, we feel that your drug/alcohol questions are used to cause an applicant to divulge an addiction or perceived addiction. You can’t ask pre-offer questions regarding frequency or extent of alcohol/illegal drug use because these inquiries are likely to cause an applicant to divulge a disability or perceived disability, and therefore, such questions are disability-related questions and should not be asked until after a conditional job offer. The Americans with Disabilities Act allows law enforcement agencies to conduct post-offer medical examinations and ask post-offer disability-related inquires. Disability-related inquiries and medical examinations legally go hand-in-hand since they are governed by the same ADA provisions.You would not ask an applicant to do a medical examination before a conditional offer, so why would you ask disability-related questions before a conditional job offer? (END) more

Resolved Question: Please Help?

Sexual harassment is one of the biggest problems facing schools and businesses today. A week rarely goes by without a remainder of the pervasiveness of sexual harassment as a social problem. Sexual harassment is a growing problem in government agencies, schools, and corporations worldwide. Many corporations are adopting new anti-harassment policies, as are schools and agencies. They definition of sexual harassment is any unwanted or inappropriate sexual attention. It includes touching, looks, comments or gestures. A key part of sexual harassment is that it is one-sided and unwanted. Employers and administrators have a duty to investigate allegations of sexual harassment. An increasing number of companies are searching for new ways to protect themselves against these allegations. Many more corporations around the county are adopting their own anti-harassment and implementing ever clearer definitions of sexual harassment to combat this growing problem. Chief Executive Officers should do a variety of things to stop sexual harassment in the workplace. The most important thing is for upper-level management to make it clear to workers that harassment of any kind will not be tolerated. If top managers don't take the issues seriously, employees wont either. Managers must also understand that they are responsible for their employees. Companies need an explicit written policy on sexual harassment that is widely available in the workplace. Most consultants advise companies to do more than just to post the policy on bulletin board. They say that the policy should be repeatedly distributed in new employee orientation packets. Employees should have clear definitions of what sexual harassment includes and what it doesn't include. Many companies are now offering employee training sessions on sexual harassment and many say that the follow-up training is a good idea. Training programs should include all employees, rather than just the managers. The tone should not be specifically apply to males or females and the meeting should avoid heavy discussions of male harassment that might cause some resentment among the male employees. Many times programs arent effective because a lot time is spent attacking men and not the crime . Companies need a good system to deal with complains. A clear process for handling complaints shows that a company takes them seriously. Until 1991, it was hard for women to make allegations of sexual harassment since they often felt that there was nothing they could do about it. During the fall of 1991, the subject of sexual harassment attracted news headlines. Everyone began discussing the issue and emotions ran high. However, the highly publicized hearings that involved Clarence Thomas and Anita hill changed everything. Judge Clarence Thomas was nominated to be a Supreme Court Justice. Supreme Court Justices have their jobs for life and cannot be fired. Before a person can be made a Justice, he or she must be questions and approved by Congress. judge Thomas had once been the head of a U.S. agency called the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC makes sure everyone is treated fairly when applying for a job. It also enforces laws against sexual harassment. Anita Hill is a law professor. She worked with the judge thomas at the EEOC many years ago. A few weeks into the congressional investigation, she came forward and accused him of sexual harassment. She claimed that she used to constantly ask her for dates and spoke to her about pornographic films he had seen. Anita hill said that while she was deeply offended by these remark she felt that she could not complain because thomas was her boss. She though that her career could be in trouble if she made a cuss. Anita Hill was a very believable witness, but Judge THOMAS DENIED HER charges in the strongest possible terms. WHo was telling the truth. The country was divided. The issue was being discussed everywhere. Women from all across the nation told of their experiences with sexual harassment and many mend admitted to being insensitive to this issue. Finally the senate voted to approved Judge Thomas but the vote was close. Many senators had doubts about Thomas character. Others did not think that his career should be destroyed because of one persons story. They said there was not enough evidence to prove that there was wrongdoing. In the end, nearly everyone agreed that sexual harassment is a serious problem to which everyone must become more sensitive. Women are not the only victims are sexual harassment. More and more men are being harassed in the workplace, classrooms, and locker rooms. Men can be victimized by both women and / or other men. THere are other ways to avoid being sexually harassed. For example keep your relationships at work strictly on business level. If you work in the same room as the harasser, somehow create a barrier between the two work stations. Do not ask for personal favors or special treatment from the harasser so that hthat he or she will not feel owed anything. Do not talk about anything personal. Sexual harassment is always wrong . No one deserves it. It is always hurtful to the victim. If everyone confronts this problem men and women would be able to work better together at school, and At work. They would be able to build less stressful relationships. Do not be afraid to report it. The sooner you complain, the problem will be resolved. Question: The author of this aritcle has strong opinions on sexual harassment. Do you think he or she presents the argument logically. Why or why not? Use examples from the passage to support your answer more

Resolved Question: What does a degree in GWS Get You? From the University Of Georgia Website Is this True?

Should Taxpayers Pay for this at State Universities and Colleges? Career Opportunities for Women's Studies Majors 1. What You Can Do with a Degree in Women's Studies A. Employment Skills You Gain With a Liberal Arts Education Women's studies provides you with all the benefits of a liberal arts degree. Liberal arts education emphasizes critical thinking, which can be applied to a multitude of careers. It demonstrates to a potential employer that you have the confidence, skills, and maturity to earn a college degree; that you are well-rounded, having studied a wide variety of topics rather than one narrow skill area; that you likely are able to think more globally than many other job applicants. Managers often prefer liberal arts majors because they think they are better at organizing material, writing well, and making oral presentations. Moreover, a Women's Studies major equips you with significant additional advantages... B. Additional Employment Skills You Gain With a WS Degree Larissa Semenuk, a Women's Studies graduate, explains: "The major prepares one to do anything any other liberal arts major does but with deeper insight into issues of oppression and celebration of women. Hopefully, this insight carries over into important issues of other groups -- making one more sensitive and therefore more prepared to do all things/jobs with greater attention to ethical standards. A Women's Studies major is taught to look for the hidden -- like looking for the silenced voices of women in history. It's invaluable!" (Luebke and Reilly 19). There are many practical applications for Women's Studies training on the job. For example, as more women work, business and corporations find the need for more sensitivity to women's issues such as sexual harassment, flex-time, parental leave, pay equity, and equal employment opportunities. The development of women's agencies and organizations is spurring demand for graduates with specializations in Women's Studies. There is growing demand in the professions of law, medicine, social work, teaching, counseling, and government service for expertise on gender issues. Similarly, women's studies specialists are increasingly being used as consultants in industry, higher education, insurance companies, and personnel firms. Perhaps most importantly, many Women's Studies graduates say that their education gave them the confidence to pursue careers traditionally held by men. C. Fields of Graduate Study That WS Majors Have Pursued The fields of graduate study that Women's Studies majors have pursued include: Administration, advocacy, anthropology, arts, counseling, education, history, humanities, international studies, law, library science, philosophy, psychology, public health, public policy, social work, and sociology. D. Fields of Employment WS Graduates Have Pursued, With Real Examples of Specific Job Placements Within Each Category A recent national study uncovered more than 38 distinct occupations pursued by Women's Studies graduates (Luebke and Reilly). Categories of careers includeRio: The key word in your answer is yet. And, in Florida they have pulled funding for GWS major. more

Resolved Question: Why is society so feminized?

I am against racism, sexism, and ofcorse feminism. I am one of the few people out there who actually believes that men and women should be treated equal. I don't think women should get any special treatment just because they are women. Just like i wouldn't want any special treatment just because I am a man. Women have everything they need, they have a pro choice president, laws that force employers to employ women and minorities, special scholarships and all kinds of other opportunities that I don't have as a male. I don't complain at all about it, I just want to hear women stop complaining. In my opinion women now have more power than men in america. Don't believe me, look at how many married men act. Most of my buddies can't even hang out with me without calling their wife. Its sick! more

Resolved Question: Was this Christian just trying to start trouble?

I could understand if this was an honest mistake, but why go against company policy and then sue? "Florida woman claims 'Merry Christmas' greeting got her fired" By Melissa Nelson, The Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. - A Florida woman claims a vacation rental company fired her because she used "'Merry Christmas" to greet callers. Thirty-five-year-old Tonia Thomas says she lost her job after failing to use the company-mandated greeting of "Happy Holidays." The Panama City woman and self-described strong Christian has filed a federal complaint that accuses the company of religious discrimination. She has since found another job since her Dec. 10th firing, but for less money and is seeking compensation for lost wages. Her former employer, Counts-Oakes Resorts Properties Inc., says it's no Scrooge. It describes the woman as just a disgruntled employee, but refuses to elaborate. Liberty Counsel, an Orlando-based legal group that advocates for people discriminated against because of their religion, is representing Thomas before the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission. Their complaint also accuses the company of harassing and taunting Thomas after she was fired by calling the police to watch her pack her belongings and leave. Thomas could have hard time winning the case, said Thomas Harper, a Jacksonville-based labour lawyer who writes a newsletter on Florida employment law. "I wouldn't think an employee has the right to insist (on saying Merry Christmas) unless that really is a tenet of their faith. She would have to make a strong case that was part of her beliefs, if not, it becomes insubordination," he said. Harper said when it comes to holiday greetings, the smartest choice might be ignoring the season. "The best option is just not to say anything," he said. more

Resolved Question: What will white males do now that discrimination against them is being encouraged?

Discrimination against dominant white males will soon be encouraged in a bid to boost the status of women, the disabled and cultural and religious minorities. Such positive discrimination -- treating people differently in order to obtain equality for marginalised groups - is set to be legalised under planned changes to the Equal Opportunity Act foreshadowed last week by state Attorney-General Rob Hulls. The laws are also expected to protect the rights of people with criminal records to get a job, as long as their past misdeeds are irrelevant to work being sought. Equal Opportunity Commission CEO Dr Helen Szoke said males had "been the big success story in business and goods and services". "Clearly, they will have their position changed because they will be competing in a different way with these people who have been traditionally marginalised," she said. "Let's open it up so everyone can have a fair go." Victoria's peak business body expressed concern yesterday about the need for the proposed laws, and questioned if they would undermine the right of companies to make legitimate business decisions. At present, individuals or bodies wanting to single out any race or gender for special treatment must gain an exemption from VCAT. Companies and public bodies accused of discrimination can only be held to account after a complaint has been made. But the proposed changes go much further, allowing the commission to inquire into discrimination, seize documents and search and enter premises after attempts to bring about change have failed. Businesses and individuals would be required to change their ways even if a complaint had not been received. Action could be taken where an unlawful act was "likely to occur", not just in cases where discrimination has taken place. The commission would also have real teeth to enforce its rulings via VCAT and, as a last resort, in the courts. The changes, shown in a Department of Justice report by former public advocate Julian Gardner, would also: EDUCATE people so they know their rights. GIVE more protection to people with disabilities, requiring companies and public entities to reasonably accommodate their needs. GRANT the homeless and people who act as volunteers better protection from discrimination. Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry workplace general manager David Gregory said business supported the objectives of equal opportunity legislation. "But I am concerned and curious about whether these changes mean the commission can second-guess the legitimate business decisions of individual businesses," he said. The first raft of changes to the Equal Opportunity Act were introduced into Parliament last week. more

Resolved Question: How are women underpaid?

With all the equal opportunity laws I wonder why women are still grossly underpaid than men and I question what exactly it means. Between the way data is represented does it mean, A. One employer hires both men and women to do the same job, yet pay the women less money. B. Women are doing doing the same exact job as men but are only getting hired by employers who pay less. C. In a general work field, women are getting paid less than men. Which one these is it? Or is it a combination of all three? In my work experience, I find A hard to believe.. for an employer can get away with. I also think C is misrepresentation of data. What do you think?I guess I see the glass ceiling argument, it would somewhat legally alow employers to promote or give raises to men on sexist standards. But it would also mean that they are also technically not doing the same job anymore. I think this would fit more under job discrimination or unequal opportunity rather than wage gap. more

Resolved Question: Could you check my writing and correct my mistakes? - second part ?

it is a second part of my work. Thank you so much. "Licences and permits Some types of businesses may need licences, permits or registrations to operate and sell good or provide services. Some licences for nightclubs are obvious but for example a business which sells food between the hours of 11pm and 5am need a late hours catering licence. To create a great atmosphere in my coffee shop I want to play music for my customers however, it is not as simple as many people think because if I have the radio on and play music, I am breaking the law as I do not have their license to do so in public. To make sure I do not break the law I will have to pay the performing rights to the "Performing Rights Society. Legal responsibilities Careful attention needs to be paid to businesses’ staff and their rights. There are many laws affecting health and safety at work, paying and equal opportunities. Health and safety Stringent rules are set out to ensure that businesses do all they can to protect their workers. The main legislation in Britain is the Health and safety at Work Act. This sets the minimum standards which employers must maintain the working environment and workplace. This includes: • Businesses must provide all necessary safety equipment and clothing • Making sure that workers have regular brakes • Employers must provide a safe working environment • All businesses must have a written safety policy on display • All businesses must keep temperatures comfortable I must make sure that my own business meets all legal requirements, specifically health and safety regulations and food hygiene legislation. I also need to provide adequate washrooms and toilet facilities and create a hygienic and safe environment for my workers to work in. Contract of employment Anyone employed in the business within two months of starting work must received a contract of employment that clearly sets out their conditions and service such as duties, hours of work, job title and description, holiday pay, sick pay agreement, the amount of pay and how often payments will be made etc. Each contract of employment must include the name of the employer and employee and clearly shows all duties and responsibilities. Thinking about my own business, I must guarantee a contract of employment for each employee within two months should have a contract of employment that clearly sets out all conditions, duties and responsibilities. According to HM Revenue & Customs each employee within my business must be paid at least: - £5.73 per hour for workers aged 22 years and older - £4.77 per hour for workers aged 18-21 - £3.53 per hour for all workers under the age of 18 Discrimination Equal Pay Act 1970 – This Act states that I must treat both sexes equally. A woman employed in the same job as a man must have the same pay and conditions. Disability Discrimination Act 1995 –This Act states that it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide adequate services. The Race Relations Act 1976 states that it is unlawful for an employer to treat or fail to prevent the treatment of workers less favourably because of their colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins. As an owner of a business ,I must make sure I meet all of these requirements listed above. I should also remember that part-time workers must also be given the same rights and contortions as full-time workers. To meet The Disability Discrimination Act, my business must offer toilets for disabled people, menu in “Brail language” for the benefit of the blind people and each service provided by my business must be equally available for disabled people." more

Resolved Question: Could you please check this for grammatical errors? - part 2?

This is second part. Could you please check this for grammatical errors? Thank you! "National/local laws It is extremely important to recognize that each business has a number of legal obligations. For example there is a number of insurances. Some of these insurances are compulsory for businesses like for example motor insurance if you run a company vehicle, while other insurance are optional like building insurance or keyman insurance. To run my business I will need the employer's liability insurance which is required of all employers. It will generally protect me against the costs of compensating employee who is injured in the work place. Legal responsibilities Careful attention needs to be paid to businesses’ staff and their rights. There are many laws affecting health and safety at work, paying and equal opportunities. Health and safety Stringent rules are set out to ensure that businesses do all they can to protect their workers. The main legislation in Britain is the Health and safety at Work Act. This set out the minimum standards which employers must maintain the working environment and workplace. This include: • Businesses must provide all necessary safety equipment and clothing • Making sue that workers have regularly brakes to test • Employers must provide a safety working environment • All businesses must have a written safety policy on display • All businesses must keep temperatures comfortable To prevent accidents in the work place and protect the work environment I must make sure that my own business meets all legal issues specially health and safety at work regulations and food hygiene legislation. I also need to provide adequate washroom and toilet facilities and create a hygienic and safety environment to work in. Contract of employment Anyone employed in the business within two months of starting work must received a contract of employment that clearly sets out their conditions and service such as duties, hours of work, job title and description, holiday pay, sick pay agreement, the amount of pay and how often payments will be made etc. Each contract of employment must include the name of employer and employee and clearly shows all duties and responsibilities. Thinking about my own business I must guarantee a contract of employment for each employee within two months should have a contract of employment that clearly sets out all conditions, duties and responsibilities. According to HM Revenue & Customs each employee within my business must be paid at least: - £5.73 per hour for workers aged 22 years and older - £4.77 per hour for workers aged 18-21 - £3.53 per hour for all workers under the age of 18 Discrimination Equal Pay Act 1970 – this Act states that I must treated equally both sexes. A woman employed in the same job as a man must have the same pay and conditions. Disability Discrimination Act 1995 –this Act states that it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any services. The Race Relations Act 1976 states that it is unlawful for an employer to treat or fail to prevent the treatment of workers less favourably because of their colour, race, nationality or ethnic or national origins. As an owner of the business I must make sure I meet all of these requirements listed above. I should also remember that part-time workers must also be given same rights and contortions as full-time workers. The meet The Disability Discrimination Act my business must offer toilets for disabled people, menu in “Brail language” for the benefit of the blind people and each service provided by my business must be equally available for disable people." Is there someone who can help me. PleaseeeeeeeeeeeI hope it is right. sassy lass i love you! more

Resolved Question: Could you check my language mistakes ?

Legal status: • Sole trader The sole trader is the simplest way to run a business. There are many businesses within local area which may operate as sole trader (plumbers, hairdressers, cornel shops etc.). A sole trader is an individual who owns and operates own business. However, there may be some employees who help to run a business. All profit are available for the sole trader to spend or re-invest into the business. The difficult for a sole trader is that if he or she becomes ill there is no one to run the business. A sole trader may also find it difficult to obtain finance because a number of people together can inject more finance into the business than one person alone. A sole trader has unlimited liability which means that the owner is responsible for the debts incurred by the business is things go wrong. For example if a sole trader cannot pay his or her bills, the personal assets like family home or car may be sold to cover outstanding debts. • Partnership Other business may decide to operate as partnership. In partnership, form 2 to 20 people share costs, responsibilities and risk of being in business. Partners have unlimited liability, which means that each partner is responsible for the debts of the other partners. A partnership agreement usually sets the responsibilities and rights of the partners and how the profits will be shared between the partners. This legal status also allows more capital to be used in the business that sole trader because it allows to raise capital for the business out of partners savings or with loans. Partners can also help to motivate each other and boost spirit when things go wrong. Partners can put more money and bring new skills into the business. An effective partnership needs to be made up of people with different skills and abilities because everyone can contribute ideas. For example one partner may be useful to give some useful advices to another partner. People with different skills and weaknesses are more likely to be successful. It also gives partners more personal freedom to take holidays because there is always someone to run the business. Legal responsibilities Careful attention needs to be paid to businesses’ staff and their rights. There are many laws affecting health and safety at work, paying and equal opportunities. Health and safety Stringent rules are set out to ensure that businesses do all they can to protect their workers. The main legislation in Britain is the Health and safety at Work Act. This set out the minimum standards which employers must maintain the working environment and workplace. This include: • Businesses must provide all necessary safety equipment and clothing • Making sue that workers have regularly brakes to test • Employers must provide a safety working environment • All businesses must have a written safety policy on display • All businesses must keep temperatures comfortable To prevent accidents in the work place and protect the work environment I must make sure that my own business meets all legal issues specially health and safety at work regulations and food hygiene legislation. I also need to provide adequate washroom and toilet facilities and create a hygienic and safety environment to work in. more

Voting Question: Has anyone experienced Pregnancy Discrimination and filed with the EEOC?

To start off, let's make sure that everyone knows that I understand Texas is an "at will" employment state... but do you think I have a case. If you say that it won't matter please explain the article related to this link- http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dw... I worked through a staffing agency from August 2007 to January 2008 for an Oil and Gas Company in Texas. I got hired on in January 2008. I then was considered to be in my 90 day period. The week I got hired on, I found out I was pregnant and had the flu. I was told not to come in so to prevent getting the rest of the office sick. I would have gone to work but they told me not to by my immediate supervisor. The HR lady found out he told me this and quickly called stating that he can't tell me that (after I had already missed 2 days) because I was an hourly employee and to bring a note in from my doctor in order to come back to work. So... my first question is, can they get in trouble for that? I did not tell the HR lady that I was pregnant until the beginning of April. My reasoning was that I was told that the last girl that was pregnant got fired.Out of respect, I did tell my immediate supervisor and requested we keep it on the DL. They agreed and were happy for me. Sure enough. As soon as I told the HR lady who was also assistant to the owner of the company, she did everything she could to get me fired. She changed company policy on not only me but my supervisors to try to "get me". When my 90 day period came up, my supervisors wanted to give me a raise. She, on the other hand, did not. In the end, I walked into my office one morning and my supervisor and the other owner of the company told me they had to let me go. I did NOTHING wrong. I have also been told that this company has been under investigation before for discrimination against people of ethnicity and people that may have been in a relationship, living together, and unmarried. The last girl that was pregnant was a white female that was unmarried to an African American man. They wanted to fire her before the Christmas party because they didn't want her to show up in an interracial unmarried relationship pregnant. I was going to call her but in Texas things have to be filed within 300 days and she got fired over a year ago. I don't know if it can be brought back up if I file. This is also just what I have heard in the office. Do the investigators question other employees? How can you prove that you have been discriminated against? How does the process work if I file with EEOC in Texas? How long does it take? Do I need to get my own lawyer? I am going to definately file with them, but I wanted to see if it was even worth my time... Thanks in advance. If you ask a question I will be online for a while and check back at responses and will respond to your questions. Labor Laws, Employee, Employer, Equal Opportunity Commission OH... They did not give me a reason for letting me go. They told me they couldn't. more

Voting Question: Does anyone have experience in Texas of filing pregnancy discrimination? Please read for details...?

Voting Question: Should I/ Can I sue for being fired for basically becoming pregnant?

Voting Question: Should I sue for getting fired because I became pregnant in Texas?

To start off, let's make sure that everyone knows that I understand Texas is an "at will" employment state... but do you think I have a case. If you say that it won't matter please explain the article related to this link- http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/stories/DRC_Cafe_lawsuit_0826.1201d570.html I worked through a staffing agency from August 2007 to January 2008 for an Oil and Gas Company in Texas. I got hired on in January 2008. I then was considered to be in my 90 day period. The week I got hired on, I found out I was pregnant and had the flu. I was told not to come in so to prevent getting the rest of the office sick. I would have gone to work but they told me not to by my immediate supervisor. The HR lady found out he told me this and quickly called stating that he can't tell me that (after I had already missed 2 days) because I was an hourly employee and to bring a note in from my doctor in order to come back to work. So... my first question is, can they get in trouble for that? I did not tell the HR lady that I was pregnant until the beginning of April. My reasoning was that I was told that the last girl that was pregnant got fired.Out of respect, I did tell my immediate supervisor and requested we keep it on the DL. They agreed and were happy for me. Sure enough. As soon as I told the HR lady who was also assistant to the owner of the company, she did everything she could to get me fired. She changed company policy on not only me but my supervisors to try to "get me". When my 90 day period came up, my supervisors wanted to give me a raise. She, on the other hand, did not. In the end, I walked into my office one morning and my supervisor and the other owner of the company told me they had to let me go. I did NOTHING wrong. I have also been told that this company has been under investigation before for discrimination against people of ethnicity and people that may have been in a relationship, living together, and unmarried. The last girl that was pregnant was a white female that was unmarried to an African American man. They wanted to fire her before the Christmas party because they didn't want her to show up in an interracial unmarried relationship pregnant. I was going to call her but in Texas things have to be filed within 300 days and she got fired over a year ago. I don't know if it can be brought back up if I file. This is also just what I have heard in the office. Do the investigators question other employees? How can you prove that you have been discriminated against? How does the process work if I file with EEOC in Texas? How long does it take? Do I need to get my own lawyer? I am going to definately file with them, but I wanted to see if it was even worth my time... Thanks in advance. If you ask a question I will be online for a while and check back at responses and will respond to your questions. Labor Laws, Employee, Employer, Equal Opportunity Commission OH... They did not give me a reason for letting me go. They told me they couldn't. more

Resolved Question: Can I sue for firing me for no reason in Texas other than my becoming pregnant?

I worked through a staffing agency from August 2007 to January 2008 for an Oil and Gas Company in Texas. I got hired on in January 2008. I then was considered to be in my 90 day period. The week I got hired on, I found out I was pregnant and had the flu. I was told not to come in so to prevent getting the rest of the office sick. I would have gone to work but they told me not to by my immediate supervisor. The HR lady found out he told me this and quickly called stating that he can't tell me that (after I had already missed 2 days) because I was an hourly employee and to bring a note in from my doctor in order to come back to work. So... my first question is, can they get in trouble for that? I did not tell the HR lady that I was pregnant until the beginning of April. My reasoning was that I was told that the last girl that was pregnant got fired.Out of respect, I did tell my immediate supervisor and requested we keep it on the DL. They agreed and were happy for me. Sure enough. As soon as I told the HR lady who was also assistant to the owner of the company, she did everything she could to get me fired. She changed company policy on not only me but my supervisors to try to "get me". When my 90 day period came up, my supervisors wanted to give me a raise. She, on the other hand, did not. In the end, I walked into my office one morning and my supervisor and the other owner of the company told me they had to let me go. I did NOTHING wrong. I have also been told that this company has been under investigation before for discrimination against people of ethnicity and people that may have been in a relationship, living together, and unmarried. The last girl that was pregnant was a white female that was unmarried to an African American man. They wanted to fire her before the Christmas party because they didn't want her to show up in an interracial unmarried relationship pregnant. I was going to call her but in Texas things have to be filed within 300 days and she got fired over a year ago. I don't know if it can be brought back up if I file. This is also just what I have heard in the office. Do the investigators question other employees? How can you prove that you have been discriminated against? How does the process work if I file with EEOC in Texas? How long does it take? Do I need to get my own lawyer? I am going to definately file with them, but I wanted to see if it was even worth my time... Thanks in advance. If you ask a question I will be online for a while and check back at responses and will respond to your questions. Labor Laws, Employee, Employer, Equal Opportunity Commission OH... They did not give me a reason for letting me go. They told me they couldn't. more

Resolved Question: How do you prove that you were fired becuase you got pregnant in Texas?

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Voting Question: Can anyone proofread my paper and also give some suggestions?

Women Earn Less Than Men In Today’s Society Women in the United States of America’s workforce today still face inequality in pay; earning less than men in today’s society. Women earn less than men primarily because of sexual discrimination, motherhood, and sexual harassment. However, some scholars refute that women earn less than men. In fact, some scholars argue that women chose to make less income than men, and that women do not make less than men because of sexual discrimination. Women in today’s society should have the same socioeconomic status as men; as well as the same opportunities and pay in the workplace . Women have been fighting for rights for centuries up until now. The first action that took place was the Women’s Right Movement which started in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY. The convention meeting among the women would be the first step in history towards equal rights for women. The Women’s Right Movement began to change the perception of the way they were looked at in society. The women rights movement focused on equal pay for women, education, and property rights. In the 19th century a bill was passed in 1963 called the Equal Pay Act which deplored sexual discrimination from the workplace. However, women in the 21st century today are still being discriminated against and paid less than men even though it is violating federal laws. Sexual discrimination in the workplace against women is common among corporate businesses and small businesses. Women are sexually discriminated against because of society’s Biglow 2 view of gender roles and being that we live in a male dominated society. Women often face occupational segregation; it is believed that women can’t hold certain positions such as drive a forklift, be a carpenter, a miner or several other occupations because of their gender this is equal to sexual discrimination. According to the article “Women Still Earn Less Than Men Because of Sex Discrimination” written by Evelyn Murphy and E.J. Graff “Employers still flatly refuse to hire fully qualified women into a wide variety of jobs: forklift drivers, firefighters, salespeople, electricians, regional managers, stockbrokers, senior executives. Or they hire women, but refuse to promote them—as happens to grocery clerks, police officers, university professors, and management analysts” (Women Earn Still Earn Less Than Men pg2). From this above statement we can examine that women are expected to do jobs within their gender role. Gender roles play a big part in sexual discrimination because gender roles are the behavior norms associated with being a male or female. For example, men are supposed to be the provider and take car of the family’s finances and women are to be mothers and raise the family and do cooking and cleaning. Women lose thousands in earnings over a lifetime because of sexual discrimination even if the are college graduates. According to the same article it reveals “ A college graduate loses $1.2 million. A young woman who graduated from college last spring and went right to work would, over her lifetime, make $1.2 million less than the young man who received his diploma next to her” ( Women Earn Less..). This proves that being a women and having an education doesn’t guarantee that she will earn top pay because the man next to her that earned the same degree than her will earn more than she does in a lifetime. Motherhood is the best experience a women can accomplish in life, but when you become pregnant, and are working, it can become a problem. Women who choose motherhood Biglow 3 have the hardest time figuring out when they should tell their employer because they are afraid of discrimination, demotion, or a pay cut, and getting their schedules to work around being a mom. According to the article “MOTHER’S ARE DISCRIMINATED IN THE WORKPLACE” it states “Today, 72 percent of American mothers work outside the home, yet companies have been slow to adapt to their needs with part-time or flex-time schedules” (Mothers Are Discriminated In the Workplace). From the above passage, it can be seen that companies aren’t adapting to mother’s and their needs which causes men to be more in demand and women to lose out on earnings that could put them in the lead for equal pay. Sexual harassment is also a major reason why women earn less than men in the workplace. Many times, when women report sexual harassment, they either get fired or demoted. For example, when women make reports of sexual harassment, they are often demoted or fired because they decided to expose that they were violated. According to the book Sexual Harassment of Working Women by Catharine A. Mackinnon “ Sexual harassment threatens women in their jobs. It “hinders” women in getting, and keeping a job” (Sexual Harassment of Working Women pg 206). From this statement, it shows that sexual discrimination can be a serious factor in employment. Women should not have to weigh their options and choose to decide be more

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Its on discrimination and its just a prat of the essay not the full thing. Thanks you guys are great. Placing ethnicity aside, all women, black, brown and white face discrimination in today’s world. Bill Copeland once said, "Not only is a women's job never done, the definition keeps changing. Although this is true, this new role is not yet readily accepted in today’s society and bias is widespread throughout the workplace. In the business world of today, sexual harassment against women in the workplace is becoming a controversial topic. Some scholars believe that it is a serious problem while others disagree and feel that the issue has been blown out of proportion. Even Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer and largest employer in America, practices sexual discrimination. How you ask? Well Wal-Mart is very good at disguising this fact but the truth is that men are typically paid more than women even when their levels of experience are the same and sadly this gap at Wal-Mart grows wider each passing day. Wal-Mart does not offer equal training opportunities to its women employees and tries to prevent women from working in department stores typically staffed by male workers as they tend to pay more. Lastly Wal-Mart also refuses to post management openings, thus limiting women's opportunities to apply for management positions. Women in law firms are also harassed. Because of the stereotypical thought that women are sweet not aggressive they are undermined by employers and denied career changing projects. Men argue that hiring women may be cumbersome as finding replacements during maternity leaves are difficult. They say they find it difficult to correct and punish them accordingly without seeming unfair and that they are distractions during the day to other males in the workplace. But surely these excuses are bogus. Women should not be deprived of working opportunities just because of how they appear and how men assume they do or should behave. more

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Resolved Question: Isn't this discrimination in hiring?

Doesn't this statement make this employer a non- equal opportunity employer, thus violating federal law? "Must present a professional image. We are a conservative swim school. No excessive facial piercings or hair color unlike a normal human being. "Vee I like your answer so far, the "normal human being" thing is mainly where I took offense...i mean describe normall...and what if by some stroke of screwed up misfortune little billy was born with blue hair cause mom tried some new wave drug that had a strange side effect.... or some other birth defect happened where his blue eye pigments got mixed into his hair pigments...now poor little billy can't get a job cause he's not "normal" not that those are high odds...but hey.... it could happen...911 Kim I agree a re-wording is necessary. They sound very unprofessional by saying they only hire normal people.... OMG!! they should fire themselves.... more

Resolved Question: How would women benefit from anti-feminism? What if we got rid of "equality" legislation since the 1960's?

What would happen if we got rid of all the legislation related to equal pay, sexual harassment, equal education, pregnancy discrimination, paternal/maternal employment leave, marital rape, and violence against women, that have been passed since 1960-how would women (and men) benefit from anti-feminism? This would be some of the legislation that would be erased: 1963 The Equal Pay Act passes, requiring equal wages for women and men doing equal work. It is the first federal law prohibiting sex discrimination. 1964 The Federal Civil Rights Act passes, including Title VII, which guarantees equal opportunity in employment. Title VII is the statutory basis not only for equal opportunity and sex discrimination cases, but, as a subset of the latter, sexual harassment cases as well. The Civil Rights Act creates the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce workplace equality. 1972 Title IX of the Education Amendments Act passes, guaranteeing equal access to academic and athletic resources regardless of gender. 1975 Congress opens U.S. military academies to women 1978 The Pregnancy Discrimination Act becomes federal law, recognizing that discrimination on the basis of pregnancy is discrimination on the basis of sex. The PDA guarantees pregnant women who are capable of working the right to do so, identical to employees with other, but similar, medical conditions. The Act also mandates that employers provide the same benefits to women at any stage of pregnancy, delivery, or recovery from delivery when they are medically unable to work as to all other employees with temporarily disabling conditions. It also forbids workplace discrimination against women based on the mere possibility of pregnancy. 1993 The Family & Medical Leave Act becomes law, based on the research and policy initiatives prepared by the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship class of 1985-86. President Bill Clinton selects the FMLA to be the first legislation signed in his presidency. President George Bush had twice vetoed similar bills. 1993 All 50 states make it illegal to rape your spouse. 1994 Passage of the federal Violence Against Women Act creates penalties for interstate stalking and other gender-based crime. more

Resolved Question: How are paralegals viewed by lawyers?

I've been looking into becoming a paralegal. One aspect of the job that nobody talks about, however, is the way paralegals are viewed by their employers. The nature of the job as it relates to the field of law seems as though it would lend itself to a life of mistreatment at the hands of "real lawyers". So often, it seems, people in a position of power really relish the opportunity to make someone else feel small and worthless. Is this the case with a lowly paralegal, or are they more often than not appreciated to some degree, or even thought of as near equals? I understand that there are all different people in the world and that some are jerks and some are benevolent. I just want to know how paralegals are thought of/treated generally speaking. In other words, are they looked down on, thought of as mostly incompetent, etc. Thanks for the feedback. more

Voting Question: Do lawyers mistreat paralegals?

Resolved Question: If its illegal to ask for your age for a job then why...?

If there are age discrimination laws in place that prevent employers from asking an applicants age for a job, how come they can do it on the Equal Opportunity Form? Granted that form is voluntary, but I feel like when I don't fill it out completely I am not being a "Team Player" and will most likely not be considered for the position. more

Resolved Question: Please check my work! No one else will!?

Please check these problems and correct me if any are wrong! I need an A on this test! please help! 1: Which of the following made possible the American industrial growth of the late 1800s? the household economy technological advances * government reforms the development of labor unions 2: Which of the following revolutionized American communications in the late 1800s? steam engines and steamships the telegraph and telephone * a workable light filament refrigeration and sewing machines 3: One of Thomas Edison's major accomplishments was developing a more efficient way to make steel inventing the telegraph and telephone helping to make electricity more widely available * preaching the "gospel of wealth" 4: Andrew Carnegie argued that the success of wealthy industrialists helped the entire nation * should be limited by the government was illegal according to the Sherman Antitrust Act had no effect on average Americans 5: During the late 1800s, children often worked in factories because their parents believed in the process of "natural selection" families needed the income to survive * employers offered high wages to skilled children there were no public schools for children to attend 6: One thing a person could do in 1900 but not in 1865 was ride on a train sew a dress play a phonograph * read at night 7: Which statement best describes the lifestyle of homesteaders? Homesteaders lived in isolation and avoided social contact. Most women worked outside their homestead. * Homesteaders lived simple and secure lives. Homesteaders often had to struggle even for the necessities. 8: Which one of the following is a lingering myth about the West? It was settled by a variety of races. * Settlers were nearly all white males. Settlers nearly destroyed Native American peoples. Western settlement damaged the environment. 9: Farm mechanization resulted in an increase in farm production a decline in the number of eastern farms * the end of bonanza farms stable crop prices 10: What was one key requirement that applicants had to meet to receive land under the Homestead Act? They had to live on the land all year long. * They had to farm the land for five years in a row. They had to file a claim with a bank. THey had to whel portable cabins from plot to plot. 11: What drew many new immigrants to the West? the opportunity to learn new languages the climate on the plains "land-grant" colleges cheap land and new jobs * 12: How did new technology help farmers on the Great Plains? It saved them time and effort It eliminated insect pests * It made crops drought-resistant It lowered their dabt 13: During the late 1800s, the port of entry for the majority of immigrants was Boston * San Francisco Philadelphia New York 14: Which of the following was a major result of both immigration and the increaded productivity of factory jobs in the late 1800s? the rapid expansion of urban areas * mechanization of agriculture high wages for factory workers overpopulation of the South 15: In the 1890s, immigration patterns shifted dramatically, with most immigrants now coming from northern European countries southern and eastern European countries * Mexico and Central America China and Japan 16: One reason that the United States became more urban during the late 1800s is that farm mechines and factory-made goods reduced the need for farm labor * nobody wanted to live on farms anymore immigrants did not know how to do farm work union organizing of farm workers had not yet begun 17: Which of the following attacted many immigrants to the United States? the military draft strong alien land laws a chance at a better life * labor unions 18: Where did European immigrants often settle in the United States? in western railroad towns in their ports of entry * in the South near lakes 19: When African Americans left southern farms in the late 1800s, where did they relocate? in western minig towns in Mexican border towns in nearby cities * in suburbs 20: Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of cities? migration to the suburbs improvements in transportation construction of skyscrapers * immigration 21: Which of the following best characterizes urban areas in the early 1900s? slums and tenements a growing middle class population open spaces, trees, and grass ethnically mixed neighborhoods * 22: Which became the most popular American sport during the late 1800s? football baseball * basketball hockey 23: In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional established the "separate-but-equal" doctrine, upholding segregation * ordered public school districts to upgrade schools for African Americans ordered universities to enroll more women and African Americans 24: Which of the following factors helped to reduce household chores by 1900? technological advances * smaller homes inexpensive domestic help division of labor among family members 25: Which of the following were popular forms of entertainment in the late 1800s? vaudeville moving pictures trolley parks all of the above * 26: Which was a result of the Spanish-American War? Cuba became a Spanish protectorate Puerto Rico and Guam were made US territories Spain admitted it had blown up the Maine The Philippines won independence from foreign rule * 27: The building of the Panama Canal was important because it helped staballize the economies of Latin American countries improved relations between Colombia and the United States facilitated movement between Atlantic and Pacific ports * promoted European investment in the United States 28: Under imperialism, the stronger nation attempts to dominate a weaker country sell its products to a weaker country create an empire all of the above * 29: Most Progressives argeed that the government should nationalize industries abolish home rule in cities and states protect workers and help the poor * outlaw unions 30: Woodrow Wilson won the presidential election of 1912, partly due to Taft's decision not to run for a second term the fact that he was the only candidate with a reform platform a split in the Republican vote * the lack of competition 31: Progressivism was halted by the efforts of the NAACP World War I the repeal of the prohibition amendment * the victory of the Bull Moose Party 32: Which belief was held by most Progressives? The government should be more accountable to its citizens Housing and healthcare should remain private The government should protect agricultural interests The government should intervene in unfair business practices * 33: In 1906, Upton Sinclair's novel entitled The Jungle exposed dangerous workplace conditions in the meatpacking industry for women in the garment industry for children working long hours * for miners in West Virginia and Colorado 34: One way reformers hoped to end corruption in govenrment was to establish an income tax * give voters more direct say in lawmaking provide more welfare services use the army to oust political machines 35: Many Americans became more supportive of sufrage as a result of women's activities in World War I * the Seventeenth Amendment the Bradwell v. Illinois decision the repeal of prohibition 36: The battle for women's suffrage ended with the ratification of the 16th Amendment 17th Amendment 18th Amendment 19th Amendment * 37: Which event sparked World War I? the sinking of the Lusitania the German-French dispute over Alsace-Lorraine Russia's quest for a warm-water port the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne * 38: Which of the following was a major factor in the decision of the United States to enter World War I? Britain's naval blockade of Germany Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare * Vladimir Lenin's rise to power in Russia France's fall to the Central Powers 39: An underlying cause of World War I was the ongoing dispute over the convoy system the web of alliances European nations created for their defense * an alliance between the autocratic rulers of Germany and Russia American insistence on neutrality 40: After Lenin seized control of Russia in 1917, Germany surrendered the Allies declared war on Russia the United States entered the war Russia withdrew from the war * 41: One of the main causes of the war, imperialism, involved invading Belgium and France acquiring uncolonized areas of the world * blockading enemy ports acting in a nation's own interest 42: The German U-boat changed the rules of naval warfare because it attacked only in the summer remained hidden and fired without warning * avoided merchant ships surfaced before firing its torpedoes 43: The death toll from World War I was the highest for American troops low, because of advances in weapons extraordinarily high * high for Germany, but low for the Allies 44: In the 1920s, many American consumers began to adopt the practice of recycling sewing their own clothes buying goods on credit * publishing their own newspapers 45: Henry Ford's dream was to sell cars that came in many colors could travel 100 miles per hour ordinary people could afford * would attract wealthy business owners 46: One result of Prohibition during the 1920s was an increase in alcoholism a decline in dancing and socializing the rise of organized crime * the creation of urban artistic colonies 47: How did life change for American women in the 1920s? Many women felt more fre to experiment with bolder styles and manners * Married women found it much easier to balance careers and family life Most women grew long hair and stopped using makeup Women began to dominate the work force, often taking leadership positions 48: Jazz was brought to northern cities by older generations musicians from the Mexico City area southern Arfican Americans * World War I veterans 49: The rise of films, radio broadcasting, and the news media all helped to bring about organized crime a national culture * the Garvey movement the Ku Klux Klan 50: During the Depression, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans made great strides in equal rights legislation often lost jobs to white laborers * were less affected than other groups were encouraged to start their own businesses 51: A major environmental crisis of the 1930s was known as the Dust Bowl * the Grapes of Wrath Black Tuesday the Great Crash 52: How did most investors react to a sudden fall in stock prices in 1929? They called in their loans They pooled money to buy stocks They raced to sell their stocks * They pledged their stocks as collateral 53: A fundamental disagreement between the candidates in the 1932 presidential election concerned whether or not the Depression existed the federal governement should try to fix people's problems Americans should offer aid to European economies any relief efforts were necessary to ease the ecnomic crisis * 54: The rise in homelessness mainly resulted from increased immigration high interest rates a decline in housing construction laid off workers losing their homes * 55: During the Depression working women were embarassed to be working respected for being family providers paid extra if they got married accused of taking jobs away from men * 56: Which New Deal agency was created to help businesses? Federal Reserve Board National Recovery Administration * Civilian Conservation Corps Home Owner's Loan Corporation 57: What criticism did many Progressives make of the New Deal? It unfairly taxed successful, hardworking people It poromoted a regimented, militaristic society It did not do enough to redistribute wealth * Many of its programs smacked of "Bolshevism" 58: The "black cabinet" was an unofficial group of African American officeholders * a loose coalition of opponents to the New Deal the nickname given to Roosevelt advisors Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes African American Cabinet members who opposed the New Deal 59: How did Roosevelt try to help business? by raising tariffs * by stabilizing industrial prices by expanding foreign trade by abolishing the minimum wage 60: How did Roosevelt's programs help farmers? by raising crop production by encouraging farmer associations by allowing Mexican labor by giving financial assistance to farmers * 61: Sit-down strikes were so successful that the Supreme Court outlawed them * employers hired only nonunion workers unions won all their demands Congress passed the Wagner Act more

Resolved Question: OMG am I DYING?

okay now that i got your attention i would first like to apologize for making this misleading no one answers questions unless they are exciteing. Ok I'm 15 years old i want a job and the laws in my state (NC) will allow me to do the work i have applied for, but the companies won't hire me because i'm too young, but yet they say the are equal opportunity employers and the state says it's legal for me to work there but yet i can't get hired, Why? more

Resolved Question: will someone read this and tell me if it is good and if not what i can do to fix it?

this is my dbq 4 am history the question asked was agree or disagree; african americans have gained political, economic and social equality The Civil Rights movement was successful in getting African Americans political, economic, and social equality. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcom X, and the Black Panthers were some of the leaders in the movement. In the beginning of the movement African Americans believed in non-violent protesting but near the end the protesting became violent. Before the movement there were laws of equality but no one followed them. After the movement the government enforced those equality laws way more. The Civil Rights Movement began when an African American woman named Rosa parks refused to move from her seat on the bus and was arrested. The specific protest that she started was the Montgomery bus boycott. African Americans were upset that Rosa parks had been arrested and they all decided to not ride the busses and walk or get rides from employers.At first it was hard for blacks to do this because they would get beaten and arrested but the government was loosing a lot of money and they decided to give the blacks freedom to sit were they wanted to on busses.This law was not followed as well as hopped. When people realized that the segregation on busses was still happening in 1961 they gathered a large group of blacks and whites. These people got several busses and had the whites sit in the back and blacks in the front. They rode the busses all over and were beaten along the way. At one point some of the busses were burned (C).After these protests African Americans finally got their freedom on busses. In 1963 James Meredith was admitted into the University of Mississippi. He felt that even though the university had admitted him that it was still not segregated an that he was alone (J). But the Board of Education felt that they had desegregated their school and was following the laws. In an earlier case that was Brown vs. Board of education they fought for desegregated schools. In the fourteenth amendment it states that facilities can be "separate but equal." They fought that separate schools was not equal (G). Brown had won this case and the schools were to be desegregated. The northern states were starting to desegregate. The desegregation of schools helped African Americans get better paying jobs because they started to get higher education. The income of most African American families had increased (E). When the African American families started to get higher income they started to move into housing in better conditions then in the homes they were forced to live in. Martin Luther King Jr. was a main leader in the movement he fought non-violently. In the march on Washington he gave his famous "I have a dream....." speech. Not long after this he was arrested and continued to fight from jail and wrote a letter (H). When the non-violent protests were not working as well as hoped African Americans started to go for violent protesting. Malcom X and the black panthers were main voices of violent protesting. The Black panthers had written a platform to state what they wanted. They wanted freedom and power to do what they want with their lives, full employment, better education opportunities, better housing, exemption from military, end to all violence toward them, and freedom to the blacks in jail. African Americans also wanted the right to vote. In 1960 Tennessee was the only state that had over 50 percent of blacks voting (B). With all the fighting and protesting done by 1966 at least three more state had over 50 percent of blacks voting(B)> In all the Civil Rights movement gained African Americans social political and economic equality. Today it is not completely equal but it is way more equal then it has been in the pat. Thanks to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, The Black Panthers and all the people who fought for the rights of African Americans. The African American people living today can go to school, work, and public places with all kinds of races. more

Voting Question: Can anyone tell me where to find information on laws related to 'at work' gay discrimination by CO employer?

I know of someone who is being asked to adhere to a separte set of standards in their behavior. While co-workers joke about having dancers come in, he can't even say he went on a date with this guy, without his boss threatening to write him up for 'drawing undo attention', for instance. He's not a flamer, in fact not everyone knows he's gay. This has a number of harmful components. He is being forced in the closet, asked to lie by deliberate omission, told to pander to social prejudice, and being unfairly silenced. I'm sure this kind of thing is probably illegal, but I can only find information on Equal Opportunity laws, and transgender issues. This is happening in Colorado, for the state laws. Does any one know where to find information related to at work behavior, and equal enforcement of policies? Thanks for the help! -Shining OneJust since 2007?? It's the bloody dark ages!!! more

Resolved Question: Where do Hillary and Obama stand on the SOLOMON AMENDMENT?

The 1996 Solomon Amendment provides for the Secretary of Defense to deny federal funding to institutions of higher learning if they prohibit or prevent ROTC or military recruitment on campus. If anyone knows, I'm very interested. Please support your claim with a source/link. Note: On March 6, 2006, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment. "In a sweeping legal victory for the U.S. military, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Pengtaon recruiters must be assured an equal opportunity with other employers to sign up students at the nation’s law schools." The Solomon Amendment: http://www.yalerotc.org/Solomon.html Court Upholds Solomon Amendment: http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/court-upholds-solomon-amendment/ How about YOU? What's your opinion about Campus Recruitment?BTW... John McCain has already expressed his support and that he would enforce the Solomon Amendment if elected. more

Resolved Question: Are there any colleges or universities which are equal opportunity, but NOT Affirmative Action employers?

I want to attend law school, but not one that uses affirmative action. Why should I spend more money on schools that don't see people as unique individuals rather than some arbitrary collective? It's hard enough having ADHD and not being well connected. I can't patronize an institution that thinks diversity is primarily skin deep. If I succeed or fail, it should be because of what I do or don't do, not because of my race or ethnicity. Disadvantage? I've already experienced lazy and incompetent people getting opportunities and a promotion that I was denied simply because they were not white males and I am, when I was clearly more qualified. I don't have as wide a range of choices because of my ADHD, but I'm very conscientious about my work and when I'm good at something, I tend to be very good at it. Is it fair that "poor white trash" like me who don't talk with a lisp should get screwed so that the Democrats can buy a few more votes? more

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Resolved Question: Why is the Left libertarian on sex but authoritarian on practically everything else?

I've been following some of the debates on prostitution in the wake of Spitzer's shaming. Most of the lefty commenters seem to be taking the libertarian position, i.e. that women acting as free agents aren't really victimized by prostitution, and that prostitution should be legal. I wonder, though: If individual rights justify legalizing prostitution, why don't they justify working for presently illegal wages, or ignoring laws that oblige members of certain professions to join unions, or that oblige businesses to do business with those unions? If we're to be free agents, enjoying the autonomy of our individual rights, what business does the government have policing private business-owners' attitudes toward race, sex, sexuality, disability, &c.? Did prevailing-wage rules apply to those prostitutes? Were there OSHA inspections? Did their employers withhold their Social Security taxes? Did they follow ADA guidelines? Were they equal-opportunity employers? Did they hang up all those ugly laminated signs from the Department of Mandatory Workplace Posters? Can we really say that anybody is exercising a "right" to do any kind of business when that business can only be done in accordance with narrow regulatory mandates? Why should you have a "right" to be a prostitute but not a "right" to work for $7 an hour at a video shop in Bovina, N.Y.?"I think it goes to the notion that prostitution is a victimless crime" thats the point if I want to work for someone at $7 hr and they pay it there is no victim. If I want to work in a field and not join a union where currently it is not acceptable, there is no victim. If we're to be free agents, enjoying the autonomy of our individual rights regulations that limit the businesses and employees are not consistant. more

Resolved Question: How come illegal aliens are protesting demand to be treated with dignity and fairness will not be intimidated

Seven hundred New Yorkers - most of them immigrants - gathered in Flushing on Saturday to send a powerful message: "We demand to be treated with dignity and fairness, and we will not be ignored or intimidated." Men and women, young and old, they came, many with children in tow, from Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens to pack the Ganesh Temple auditorium in Flushing. The crowd was impressive for its size and for its determination to be heard. "We are here today ... to work together to make New York a city responsive to the needs of the people who work and live here," Ana María Archila, co-executive director of Make the Road New York, told the crowd. With more than 4,000 members, Make the Road New York was created last year with the merger of the Latin American Integration Center and Make the Road by Walking, two grass-roots community organizations. "I would like to welcome the elected officials, our allies in the labor movement and the community organizations - and all of you," Archila said to the enthusiastic approval of the audience. No less enthusiastic were the 10 elected officials who attended the event and embraced the community's demands. All of them promised to help. It would have been difficult for Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-Bronx), City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, City Controller Bill Thompson, state Sen. John Sabini (D-Jackson Heights), Councilman John Liu (D-Flushing) and the other members of the Council and the state Senate present at the meeting to do otherwise. The community's demands were nothing if not fair, and went a long way toward defining the priorities of immigrant New Yorkers. Increased educational and economic opportunity, comprehensive immigration reform, healthy and affordable housing, equal access to government benefits and services and the expansion of civil rights across our communities for immigrants, workers, students and gay people - this is what the people gathered at the Ganesh temple were asking for. To stress even more the urgent need for those demands to be met, several community members shared moving personal stories of mistreatment and discrimination. One of them was Alejandro Carreras, who came from Ecuador six years ago and joined Make the Road by Walking two years ago. "Due to my immigration status, it has been difficult for me to find a dignified job in this country," he told the audience. "I have to do very hard jobs, but I have no choice because I have to support my family and myself." Carreras went on to recount a terrible experience of exploitation and abuse by an employer who took advantage of his undocumented status. "Some time ago, I worked with a cement contractor. I worked for him two weeks, under the sun. And when the job was finished, he did not pay me one single cent," he said. Then he added something that many others in the audience already had learned the hard way. "Unfortunately," Carreras said, "these experiences are all too frequent. Thousands of workers in New York have had similar experiences," he said. And, addressing the elected officials directly, he added, "That's why I am asking you to help pass stronger laws in New York to protect immigrant workers." http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2008/02/28/2008-02-28_immigrants_rally_to_demand_fair_treatmen.html Maybe we will give them fair treatment when they stop attacking our border patrol with brinks, last year there were 200 reported attacks on border guards, it is interesting that the liberal meadia is not reporting this, have to get info from CNN. They broke the law and are criminals, plan and simple. This is not a immigration issue, it is an illegal immigration issue. The liberal meadia have been successful in confusing the populance. more

Resolved Question: Jim Crow Laws? I need legal direction, esp familiar with Illinois?

If Obama's church, (Tuuc) were to be investigated, would one find violoation of Jim Crow laws or tax fraud? I mean, according to the claims they publish? Is Trinity tax exempt as church, I know there are few options and I am not familiar enough with the church options? If they are indepdendent, and they claim to be equal opportunity employer on their site, would they held accountable for racial segregration ? Has this been investigated? They only allow black membership and they hold classes in african heritage as the base of their "religion". If they employ whites at all, are they just for "menial" positions? Please ranters get your 2 points elsewhere. I am really curious about this as a former resident of the area and my native home. Thank you. http://www.tucc.org/job_opportunities.htmCharity, but religion is a CHOICE, skin color is something you are born with. And Wright runs a "business" under the guise of a "religion". Curious as to his tax exempt status as many churches are corporations now. And, if they are not tax exempt, then aren't they in violation in excluding employees due to color of skin? Again, religion is choice, skin color is not. more

Resolved Question: Future Democracy?

What about the following suggestions. All politicians should have at least a certificate or Diploma of BA/MA/PhD in the discipline of DEMOCRACY from a recognize university and a registered licence before they serve the voters of their respective region on behalf of the government. Rules for holding a licence and course curriculum for diploma can be made. Also they should attend seminars, publish paper, writing books, and updated their skills in the same field. They should distributed their resume (attested by government which represent their objectives, qualifications, skills, assets, charges, experience - self and under the supervision of registered politician) etc and proposal (to be submitted to the government) among the voters before polling. Laptop and mobile internet connection services should be given to the each member so that he/she/- can have accesses to the problems solving all the time. Modification in the system would be more efficient especially in the developing countries where (some) politicians do not have enough knowledge/ skills such as economic development, utilization of resources and budget, project management, politics, law, ethics, planning & communication skills (regional, local, national and international (English), etc. Election should be held under the supervision of united nation in every democratic country. Right should be given to the voters of the country in choosing a president/ chief of their own choice from all over the world just like an equal opportunity employer. This will show a region on the beautiful planet where people are looking for real change. more

Resolved Question: Pelosi: Salvation Army Must Hire People Who Can't Speak English?

Pelosi: Salvation Army Must Hire People Who Can't Speak English Have you heard about Nancy Pelosi's latest maneuver? It's been less than a week since the smackdown with Hillary Clinton and Eliot Spitzer over driver's licenses for illegal aliens. "Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from federal lawsuits for requiring their workers to speak English. Among the employers targeted by such lawsuits: the Salvation Army." This is John Fund at the Wall Street Journal. "Sen. Lamar Alexander, a moderate Republican from Tennessee, is dumbstruck that legislation he views as simple common sense would be blocked. He noted that the full Senate passed his amendment to shield the Salvation Army by 75-19 last month, and the House followed suit with a 218-186 vote just this month. 'I cannot imagine that the framers of the 1964 Civil Rights Act intended to say that it's discrimination for a shoe shop owner to say to his or her employee, "I want you to be able to speak America's common language on the job,"' he told the Senate last Thursday. But that's exactly what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is trying to do. In March the EEOC sued the Salvation Army because its thrift store in Framingham, Mass., required its employees to speak English on the job. The requirement was clearly posted and employees were given a year to learn the language. The EEOC claimed the store had fired two Hispanic employees for continuing to speak Spanish on the job. It said that the firings violated the law because the English-only policy was not 'relevant' to job performance or safety." So the bottom line is that Pelosi is trying to force, with the power and force of the federal government, she's trying to force the Salvation Army to hire people who cannot speak English. I'm telling you, calm down, calm down. This immigration stuff, the Democrats and their bud's in the Drive-By Media do not understand how volatile this is for them. Let them keep on. http://opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110010881 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/17/AR2007111701304_pf.html more

Resolved Question: If employers are equal opportunity ...?

my dream has always been law enforcement since i was young. the state patrol says i have to weigh 166lbs but i weigh 130lbs so i have to gain the wieght. the air force wont take me b/c i had astma after the age of 12, but it isnt a problem now. the local police dept wont take me b/c i didnt pass thier "personality" test. why do they say equal opportunity, but none will take me? more

Resolved Question: How can an employer know if they are discriminating against you in hiring if you are not allowed to tell him/h

er about your personal belief system? How can you be considerred for minority status of such if they don't know you are of a minority religion that is supposed to be protected and given advantage under equal opportunity hiring practices in the United States? Isn't it unconstitutional to not take into account, minority status with regards to race, CREED, age or handicap? How then did the Privacy Act of 1974 get passed into Law?Jenny, But on some applications there is no space for religion?Well memyself and I, So society has found a "Legal" way of making it harder for those who don't conform to standard religious beliefs, because even if it is not on your application, sooner or later it comes out! And in the case of my workplace that I retired from as a mechanic cause I could not get promoted because I did not fit in to the network of the social creed engines, they found out and made life miserable for me for 30 years giving me all their dirty work to do while letting creed members slide! It is not right! I refuse to take it any more without saying something! The problem is, that if this is don't ask, don't tell, then the employer can deny it's practice of discrimination and hide behind the don't ask don't tell rules and get away with it! Something is not right with the non disclosure and the religious minority non disclosure complex! more

Resolved Question: Are illegal immigrants criminals? NOT!?

By Ken Schoolland I hear it from some of the nicest people one would ever meet. Some dear friends of mine, whom I respect very much, say that all illegal immigrants are criminals because they broke the laws that control who may come into this country. And since these immigrants are criminals, we don¡'t want that kind of person here. Sadly, such accusations confuse what is legal with what is moral. American history is filled with people who broke unjust laws and were morally justified in doing so. Legality ≠ Morality The American Revolution was fought by men and women who broke the laws of England and of King George III. Had they been arrested, as was Nathan Hale, they would have been hanged for treason to the Crown. If breaking the law makes one a criminal, then the Founding Fathers were all criminals. But no one still believes that today. Dred Scott and thousands of other slaves defied the Fugitive Slave Acts and ran away, "stealing themselves" from Southern plantation masters in the early 1800's. Those who were arrested were returned to their slave "owners," and anyone found trying to help them escape to Canada was prosecuted as well. Thankfully, many juries exercised jury nullification. Declaring that the law was unjust, juries often refused to convict operators of the Underground Railroad. No one today would claim that a runaway slave was a criminal. Indeed, anyone who forcibly returned Blacks would now be considered guilty of having collaborated with the slave masters — albeit legal slave masters. In the 1930's there were hundreds of Jews who came to American shores aboard the SS St. Louis, forcibly sent back by immigration quotas to perish in Hitler's concentration camps. Thousands or millions of potential refugees watched in desperate disappointment. But suppose those passengers had defied immigration law and jumped ship in Miami harbor. Would anyone today call them criminals? I think not. Indeed, those who returned Jews to their persecutors might be considered guilty of collaborating with villainy — albeit legal villainy. Treasures of the Earth It may be illegal for people to seek freedom and opportunity in this country, but it isn't immoral. I admire the courage of immigrants who leave all that is familiar to them, risking life and limb on stormy seas and deadly deserts, in order to move to a strange land where everything is unfamiliar and potentially hostile. Most of our ancestors moved for freedom and opportunity and we are the beneficiaries. Thank God they weren't arrested and sent packing, as were violators of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Indeed, we might wonder if we could have mustered the same measure of courage if we had been in their shoes. It is convenient and simple to exclude new newcomers by calling them criminals. But the real reason is much more complex. For some people it is a fear of other races. For others it is a fear that newcomers might work hard and will "take" jobs. Others fear the opposite — that newcomers will not work hard and will take welfare. In the first case, many immigrants are great entrepreneurs who offer jobs to Americans. Other immigrants take jobs, but they never "take" jobs that are not willingly offered to them by eager employers. I often ask audiences: "Suppose you are an employer and you know only one thing about two job applicants in front of you: one is native-born and the other is an immigrant? Who would you expect to be the harder worker?" Audiences overwhelmingly favor the immigrant. Why? Americans are surely good workers. But the very act of migration is seen as proof of vigor, ambition, determination, and courageous self-reliance. Choice: Employees Right, Employers Right Americans have a moral right to make these choices for themselves — as employees and as employers. Says Robert W. Tracinski, a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute: "The irrational premise behind our nation's immigration laws is that a native-born American has a 'right' to a particular job, not because he has earned it, but because he was born here. To this 'right,' the law sacrifices the employer's right to hire the best employees — and the immigrant's right to take a job that he deserves. To put it succinctly, initiative and productiveness are sacrificed to sloth and inertia. "The 'American dream' is essentially the freedom of each individual to rise as far as his abilities take him. The opponents of immigration, however, want to repudiate that vision by turning America into a privileged preserve for those who want the law to set aside jobs for them — jobs they cannot freely earn through their own efforts....Any immigrant who wants to come to America in search of a better life should be let in — and any employer who wants to hire him should be free to do so." To the legalist, however, who places law above moral right, the employer who hires as he pleases is a criminal. The legalist wants stricter penalties against employers who defy state mandates on hiring. Once again this is reminiscent of historic laws that were used to criminalize employers who dared to hire Blacks, women, and Jews. Violations were illegal, maybe, but not immoral. Welfare Magnet? But what of the immigrant who takes welfare? Isn't this a burden on society that must be stopped? Yes, it is. But politically powerless newcomers are no more responsible for the welfare system in this country than they are responsible for the tyranny and corruption in a country that they are fleeing. Okay, stop the flow of welfare, but at the same time remove the plethora of [anti-] labor laws that make it difficult for newcomers to be hired. It is wrong to assume that most immigrants come to America to get on the welfare gravy train. If this is true, then immigrants would be moving away from states with the lowest welfare and into states with the highest welfare. My research (The Journal of Private Enterprise, Spring 2004) demonstrates that the opposite is true. In overwhelming numbers, both the native-born population and the foreign-born population through the decade of the 1990's moved away from states with the highest welfare and into states with the lowest welfare. While there are some high profile exceptions, most immigrants seek opportunity, not welfare. The brilliant economist, Julian Simon, demonstrated that immigrants are a great source of productivity and economic growth. They always have been. Simon declares that most wealthy industrial nations will depend on the productivity of immigrants to provide revenues for the increasingly costly welfare demands of a native-born population. Moral Principles Governments do not decide morality. Governments behave morally when upholding moral action and behave immorally when suppressing moral action. Morality is based on principles far more constant and profound than the variant whims of majority votes. The people who understood this best, were those rebels who defied the law of the day to pen these words: "WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men Are Created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." To George Washington this meant, "...the bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions, whom we should welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges." more

Resolved Question: Equal Opportunity Employment Laws?

There is a department at my wifes job that is hard to get into unless you are related to the boss or someone already in that department. There are certain requirements for this job in which my wife meets all of the requirements. The problem is that when these jobs become available, they do not usually post these jobs to the employers or to the outside. They have been hiring people that is either th boss's son, related to a supervisor, or people they are friendly with. My wife knows of a few examles of people they hired (presumeably without an interview) that do not even meet the minimum requirements. One of the requirements is that they must be former military (it is a government contracted job). The position has a few people that were never in the military (like the boss's son). I dont think this is classified as a government job so I don't know what the law is pertaining to this. Does anyone know the law? This is in the state of Kentucky. Is there anything she can do? more

Resolved Question: Politicians and their Illusion of Power? Take a look a give your opinion:?

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Voting Question: Can an employer legally withhold money from your paycheck, if s/he thinks you owe the company?

(Maryland laws only) My boss initially low-balled me on pay rate, because he knew I needed a job - my wife and I were pregnant. He knew I wouldn't say No to the opportunity. There were initial promises of going hourly to salary, competetive salary rate after 90 days, paid holidays, and accumulation of vacation days - none of which came to fuition. Eventually, he offered to pay for licensing costs & schooling. After a year, I took another job, with a better company, with family benefits beginning on my first day and a slightly better salary. Now, my boss wants to deduct the school's cost from my final paycheck, because I'm not "fulfilling my responsibility to the company". Should I confront him or just not come in my last few days? The amount of days I'd be paid for working at the end approximately equals the amount I "owe" the company. Is withholding that money legal or should I even have to repay it, if there is no business/employment agreement? more

Resolved Question: Liberals are followers and Bush is a leader. Its better to be right than popular?

President Bush's Accomplishments Abortion & Traditional Values 1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade. 2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy. 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. 4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services. 5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. 6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. 7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. 8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents. 9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools. 10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). 11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. 12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs. Budget, Taxes & Economy 1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. 2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. 3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. 4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. 5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. 6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. 7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. 8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. 9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. 10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. 11. Signed trade promotion authority. 12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. 13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. 14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. 15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. 16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. 17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. 18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. 19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year. Character & Conduct as President 1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. 2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days: Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing." On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation. Education & Employment Training 1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. 2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. 3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) 4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. 5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. 6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. 7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. 8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers. Environment & Energy 1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. 2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc. 3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives. 4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger. 7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California. 8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species. Defense & Foreign Policy 1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. 2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured. 3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. 4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed. 5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. 6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. 7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. 8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. 9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. 10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. 11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. 12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. 13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. 14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. 15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. 16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. 17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. 18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. 20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. Globalization & Internationalism 1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). 2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. 3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).* 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer. 5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Government Reform 1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. 3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.* 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. 5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals. Health 1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free. 2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health. 3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes: A 10-year privatization option. Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine. More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors. New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford. Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration 1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security. 2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004. 3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield). 4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders. 5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity. 6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals. 7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones. 8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested. 9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. 10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization. 12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. 13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. 14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack. Judiciary & Tort Reform 1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. 2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA. 3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary. 4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims. Politics 1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. 2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes. Second Amendment 1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right. 2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. 3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism. Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism 1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself." 2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. 3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families. 4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved. 5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible. 6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them. 7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states. 8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. 9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles: Equal Justice Freedom of Speech Limited Government Power Private Property Rights Religious Tolerance Respect for Women Rule of Law more

Resolved Question: If amnesty is to be granted to illegals,why not require they spend 3 years in the military first?

I was the only white non draftee volunteer in my unit during Vietnam the others were all Hispanic citizenship-seakers. We were drafting to fill the ranks."Pick up a rifle, learn English and a citizen you shall be!" We did it during the Civil War, Vietnam and why not NOW? The other alternative: You want citizenship, prove (like my wife had to) that you will not become a burden to the state. (What happened to THAT rule? I had to sign a 10-year affidavit of support to get her in from Korea.) One way to ensure there are no more burdens to the state is to make each illegal get sterilized It will stop anchor babies and make them think twice about flouting our immigration laws. I can see them fleeing BACK across the border! Already have a baby or four? Don't want to be sterilized? Put on this uniform or go home with your family to Mexico! The US military is the biggest equal opportunity employer Even with amnesty these people will be 2nd class citzs. If they were vets that would change alot more