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HIS105 "President Nixon and Watergate" Please respond to the following: (Note: Please respond to one [1] of the following two [2] bulleted items in a primary posting of at least 125 words. In addition, please make a substantive comment to one [1] of your classmates.)
Our discussion examines a concern common in today’s workplace, discrimination and legal
protection from it. What protects employees from on-the-job discrimination? The Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Established as part of the broader war on poverty
and inequality in the 1960s, legislators founded the EEOC within Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of
1964. The EEOC legally protects employees and job applicants from discrimination based on race,
color, religion, sex, and national origin. Recently added policies include: protecting former military
personnel from unfair hiring practices (1973); shielding workers with disabilities from inequitable
hiring, firing and job tasks (1990); and defending employees over forty years old from age-related
prejudice (1967). The EEOC, finally, investigates employer retaliation against employees who had
filed claims of discrimination.
Why was the EEOC necessary in the 1960s? Given the many advancements made against
discrimination today, do we still need the EEOC? Explain your responses.
MORE INFORMATION: Do you want to read a brief history of the EEOC? see League Information
Institute, Cornell University. (2015). Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Retrieved on
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