Class action

government employers should strictly, “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” This executive order was later revised and rephrased by another president. Nonetheless, Affirmative Action is a policy that allows minorities to have opportunities, whether it be in a workplace…

Affirmative action has received a variety of reactions since its inception on March 6, 1961. This order instituted a policy of “positive discrimination” where members of a disadvantaged group are favored more than their “advantaged” counterparts. This order allows race to be a factor in the university selection process. This mandate has caused heavy debate between people who support the bill and those who oppose it. Generally, people who support affirmative action have humanitarian motives.…

Today was the fifth day of class, and for the majority of the class, Dr. Bennett-Alexander discussed affirmative action, a set of laws, policies, guidelines, and administrative practices “intended to end and correct the effects of a specific form of discrimination.” It is remarkable to hear Dr. Bennett-Alexander name certain events from 1619 to 1980 from the back of her head, I certainly cannot accomplish that. From 1619, when the first recorded Africans arrived in the United States of America…

Affirmative Action Affirmative action has been at the center of many debates for roughly the past fifty years. “Affirmative action is defined as an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women” (Merriam-Webster). Affirmative action was originally created to ensure that hiring and employment practices are free of racial bias. In 1961, President Kennedy became the first to use the term "affirmative action" in Executive Order 10925 to…

Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday that upholds the legality of affirmative action in college admissions, Twitter users showcased their glee by using a hashtag calling out the case’s plaintiff. Abigail Fisher, a native of Sugar Land, Texas, sued the University of Texas for denying her admission to its Austin flagship campus in 2008. High school seniors in Texas who are in the top 10 percent of their graduating class are granted admission to any state university, and Fisher did not make that…

doing so, she entered into an ongoing fierce debate over affirmative action policies. This debate was, unsurprisingly, not resolved by her suit and, in fact, her case again currently sits in front of the Court as of the writing of this paper. Fisher’s case has brought renewed national attention to the use of affirmative action in university admission practices, and there…

racing each other to defy social constructs and shatter glass ceilings. With the integration of women into male dominated workplaces, the subject of discrimination was breached. Those conversations led to the proposals of concepts like affirmative action and an Equal Rights Amendment, further polarizing working women. Though these ideas have been disputed for ninety-four years, they still…

Discrimination takes place in various settings: at home, school and even at work places. It may be subtle or conspicuous. One can be discriminated based on their race, the natural place of origin, their age and sex, among many others. However, these actions are not the ethical modes of conduct that one is required to display at work. As such, this paper discusses the status of age discrimination at workplaces and in the Employment Act and the relevant legislation that protects workers who are…

States have adopted affirmative action policies in efforts to correct discrimination. Some of these policies are racially based and intended to give support to disadvantaged, historically-discriminated minorities. Although it may help a few, race based affirmative action in universities should be abolished because it is discriminatory and creates division, may actually be helpful affected minority students, and masks the real problem. Race based affirmative action is itself discriminatory and…

In 1989, employees and applicants filed a class-action lawsuit against Shoney’s Incorporated for racial discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, and discriminatory behavior towards them while on the job (University of Michigan Law School, n.d.). The plaintiffs, a mix of African-Americans and Caucasians, charged that the Shoney’s used “intimidation tactics” (University of Michigan Law School, n.d.) to either not hire African-American applicants, or assign them to kitchen positions where…