This was an employment discrimination case between Griggs vs. Duke Power Company that was decided by the U.S Supreme Court in 1971. At the time, Justice Warren Burger was the chief justice of the United States. According to an article published by Troy Kickler of the North Carolina History Project, the lawsuit was filed by Willie Griggs and twelve other African-American employees of the Duke Power’s Dan River Hydroelectric plant in Draper, North Carolina. Before the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 which went in effect in 1965, the Duke Power Company discriminated against African- American in hiring and promotions, restricting them to the company’s Labor Department. The Duke Power Company instituted a high school diploma requirement
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, title VII of the civil rights act, which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, it protects individuals against employment discrimination on basis of race and color as well as national origin, sex or religion. It is also unlawful to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race or color in regard to hiring, termination, promotion, compensations, job training or any other term, condition or privilege of employment. It also prohibits employment decisions based on stereotypes and assumptions about abilities, traits or the performance of individuals of certain racial groups. All the fifty states including Washington D.C. have their own employment discrimination laws known as the Fair Employment Practice Act (FEPA), which are similar to that of the federal civil rights law. The only difference is that it offers additional protections including job discrimination based on marital status, sexual preference or disability. Most establishments have this posted out in employee break rooms as required by …show more content…
the Duke Power Company (1971), the manner in which the company was trying to block the African Americans from getting promotions with experience, while white’s were offered opportunities with no experience was wrong. It was pure race discrimination at work place. As much as the Supreme Court ruled against the testing, race discrimination in workplaces is still an ongoing issue today. The case was legally correct but had impact on the Cooperate American companies that still favor the Caucasians in filling up the job opportunities. Griggs fought a good fight and won at a time racial discrimination was openly practiced. It paved way for a small number of minorities to venture in the Cooperate America and other establishments. Although, many employers are still reluctant to hire the minorities i.e. the Hispanics and African Americans as compared to the Caucasians who will be interviewed and get the job offers instantly at a good compensation. Even with the education and the expertise, the Caucasian will be hired first before the Minorities in many of the white collar jobs. America is a diverse nation, with people for different parts of the world, it is unfortunate that race plays a role on who gets hired where, there is no diversity in the cooperate American Companies. Minorities are left to do the hard labor jobs that do not pay well, they have to put in many hours of overtime to be able to pay for their upkeep and bills these jobs include:
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, title VII of the civil rights act, which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, it protects individuals against employment discrimination on basis of race and color as well as national origin, sex or religion. It is also unlawful to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race or color in regard to hiring, termination, promotion, compensations, job training or any other term, condition or privilege of employment. It also prohibits employment decisions based on stereotypes and assumptions about abilities, traits or the performance of individuals of certain racial groups. All the fifty states including Washington D.C. have their own employment discrimination laws known as the Fair Employment Practice Act (FEPA), which are similar to that of the federal civil rights law. The only difference is that it offers additional protections including job discrimination based on marital status, sexual preference or disability. Most establishments have this posted out in employee break rooms as required by …show more content…
the Duke Power Company (1971), the manner in which the company was trying to block the African Americans from getting promotions with experience, while white’s were offered opportunities with no experience was wrong. It was pure race discrimination at work place. As much as the Supreme Court ruled against the testing, race discrimination in workplaces is still an ongoing issue today. The case was legally correct but had impact on the Cooperate American companies that still favor the Caucasians in filling up the job opportunities. Griggs fought a good fight and won at a time racial discrimination was openly practiced. It paved way for a small number of minorities to venture in the Cooperate America and other establishments. Although, many employers are still reluctant to hire the minorities i.e. the Hispanics and African Americans as compared to the Caucasians who will be interviewed and get the job offers instantly at a good compensation. Even with the education and the expertise, the Caucasian will be hired first before the Minorities in many of the white collar jobs. America is a diverse nation, with people for different parts of the world, it is unfortunate that race plays a role on who gets hired where, there is no diversity in the cooperate American Companies. Minorities are left to do the hard labor jobs that do not pay well, they have to put in many hours of overtime to be able to pay for their upkeep and bills these jobs include: