Employment Discrimination

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This paper describes some of the laws passed by Congress in order to ensure employees with fair employment opportunities and prohibit discrimination in the workplace. The paper lists the federal laws prohibiting discrimination and explains the various types of discrimination they are intended to guard against.

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"Moreover, another type of discrimination is an equal pay and compensation discrimination. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA) requires that men and women be given equal pay for equal work in the same establishment. The jobs do not have to be identical, but they must be substantially equal. It is job content, not job titles, that determines whether jobs are substantially equal. Specifically, under EPA employers may not pay unequal wages to men and women who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort and responsibility, and that are performed under similar working conditions within the same establishment. According to the statistics, in fiscal year 2002, EEOC received 1,256 charges of compensation discrimination. EEOC resolved 1,182 compensation discrimination charges in year 2002 and recovered $10.3 million in monetary benefits for charging parties and other aggrieved individuals (not including monetary benefits obtained through litigation)."

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