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- Discrimination
- unfavorable treatment in employment based on prejudice. Major forms of outlawed discrimination include sex discrimination, racial discrimination, disability discrimination, and, in some countries, age discrimination....
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- Minority Hiring
- Minority HiringUnfair hiring practices? I don't think so!Let's see -- 40% in one year? How far does that go in redressing the imbalances resulting from years of discrimination?As for qualifications - the interview and hiring process being what it is, who can fairly judge this? The process...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Strategies, Uncertainty and Performance of Small Business Startups
- Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental uncertainty. This is done using a longitudinal data set of some 50 Dutch startups. The results suggest a dynamic process between strategy and performance. A discrimination is made between four strategies (reactive, critical point, complete...
- White papers 2000-03-01
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- discrimination in the Workplace
- For employers, keeping the workplace free of discrimination makes good business sense, not only does it prevent costly lawsuits, but it also improves employee morale. This article provides an overview of discrimination prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Age Discrimination in...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Seeing discrimination Women and minorities don't recognize it
- Researchers have found that minorities and women are far less likely than are white males to point at discrimination. They found that white men are very sensitive to acts of discrimination. It may be that you should take a look at how discrimination is perceived in your organization. If you...
- White papers 1999-01-13
- discrimination :a basic description
- This article gives a short explanation of discrimination for employers and anyone in a supervisory, administrative or human resource capacity. It is meant to provide a fundamental understanding of illegal discrimination in the United States and is written from a certain point of view. Though each kind of discrimination has...
- White papers 1998-08-27
- Coping with Marketplace discrimination: An Exploration of the Experiences of Black Men
- "Differential treatment in the marketplace based on group membership rather than individual differences, which refer to as marketplace discrimination, has been noted to occur across a multitude of consumption contexts, ranging from purchasing automobiles and real estate to browsing at retail stores or even hailing a taxicab. This article provides...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Competition and Price discrimination in the Market for Mailing Lists
- This paper examines the relationship between competition and price discrimination in the market for mailing lists. More specifically, the paper examines whether sellers are more likely to segregate consumers by offering a menu of quality choices (second-degree price discrimination) and/or offering different prices to readily identifiable groups of consumers (third-degree...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Financial Industry Gender discrimination Settlements Continue
- This document focuses on gender discrimination due to the number of large settlements that occurred recently in that area. The articles shows that financial services industry gender discrimination settlement continue, keeping a finger on the pulse of the EEOC, EPLI risk management services U.S. supreme court update on Suders and...
- White papers 2004-10-21
- Employment Of People With Disabilities: Employer Policies And Practices That Promote Non-discrimination
- Authorities across the U.S are devising policies that will help in providing employment to people with disability. The process calls for doing extensive research and identify the people who fall under the aforesaid category. The next step is to adopt steps that promote non-discrimination. Experts believe that non-discrimination at the...
- Webcasts 2002-05-22
- A Horse of a Different Shade -- Color discrimination
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says it is handling more color-discrimination complaints pitting Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and others against members of their own race or ethnic groups. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the commission averaged fewer than 500 complaints involving charges of color bias a year; in...
- White papers 2003-09-30
- Self Regulation Or Price discrimination
- Price discrimination is hypothesized in the form of censorship regulation within the motion picture industry. The test indicates consumers of DVD movies are separated into two groups according to their price sensitivity. The movie rating system administered by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of American) operates as the enforcing mechanism...
- White papers 2003-07-17
- HR Practice Tip: Protecting Against Retaliation Claims
- These days employees are winning substantial judgments for illegal retaliation, even though they are losing on their initial claim of discrimination. Employees may sue if they are adversely affected in retaliation for exercising a legal right, such as filing a discrimination claim. Retaliation Claims Often Succeed Where Discrimination Complaints Fail....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- discrimination in Employment
- In California, most employees and employers are subject to laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [42 USCA § 2000(e)], et seq. makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to engage in employment discrimination against any individual based on...
- White papers 2003-06-17
- Price discrimination, Copyright Law, and Technological Innovation: Evidence From the Introduction of DVDs
- This paper examines the welfare effects of intellectual property protection, accounting for firms' optimal responses to legal environments and technological innovation. It examines firms' use of indirect price discrimination in response to U.S. copyright law, which effectively prevents direct price discrimination. Using data covering VHS and DVD movie distribution, it...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Sue for discrimination
- What type of evidence must a plaintiff present in a “mixed-motive” case in order for the judge to instruct a jury that a claim of sex discrimination has been made? This was the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court on June 9, 2003, in Desert Palace Inc. DBA Caesars Palace...
- White papers 2003-06-13
- Can "Reverse discrimination" Exist Under the ADEA?
- Does an employer violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) by entering into a collective bargaining agreement providing retiree health benefits only to workers who had reached age 50 by a certain date? The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear such a case during its 2003-2004 term. More...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- First-Degree discrimination in a Competitive Setting: Pricing and Quality Choice
- The paper investigates competition in price schedules among vertically differentiated dupolists. First order price discrimination is the unique Nash equilibrium of a sequential game in which firms determine first whether or not to commit to a uniform price, and then simultaneously choose either a single price of a price schedule....
- White papers 2005-01-01
- A Game Of Numbers: ADEA Compliance And Litigation
- Age discrimination claims are on the rise, both in volume of cases filed and size of verdicts. This article discusses the viability of the disparate impact theory in cases alleging age discrimination, the use of statistical evidence in disparate treatment cases, and the practical cumulative effect of multiple claims of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Geography of Housing discrimination
- Discrimination in housing may vary systematically from one neighborhood to another. This article explores that possibility using a new approach based on data from fair housing audits. This approach compares real estate agents’ decision to show a house to white customers with their decision to show the same house to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- "Unfair discrimination" Under Article 21.21-8 Takes on New Meaning
- The Austin Court of Appeals, with its recent ruling in Cortez v. Progressive County Mut. Ins. Co., No. 3-99-00846-CO (Tex. App.-Austin, Sept. 13, 2001), calls into question the scope of Article 21.21, an anti-discrimination statute, and potentially expands it significantly. In its opinion, issued on rehearing, the court held that...
- White papers 2003-08-13
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