Research Catalog

Title

Federal law of employment discrimination in a nutshell / by Mack A. Player.

Author

Player, Mack A.

Publication

St. Paul, Minn. : West Pub. Co., 1976.

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Details

Description

xlvi, 336 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

Reliable guide to the federal law of employment discrimination.

Series Statement

West nutshell series

Uniform Title

Nutshell series

Subject

Discrimination in employment > Law and legislation > Outlines, syllabi, etc. > United States

Genre/Form

Outlines and syllabi

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Historical evolution -- part II. National labor relations legislation -- the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act. Outline of the legislative scheme; Exclusivity and protection of minority rights; Race, sex, national origin, and religious discrimination as an unfair labor practice; Board remedies against discrimination through administration of the certification program -- part III. Equal pay act. Coverage and protection; Plaintiff's case -- Proof of "equal work"; Defenses; Remedies and procedures -- part IV. The Constitution. Introduction; Governmental employees, "due process," and "equal protection"; Governmental regulation of private employers; Private entities -- a problem of "state action" -- part V. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Coverage and protections; Express Classification of protected classes; Individual employment decisions where motice is at issue: Mcdonnell Douglas v. Green; Neutral rules having a discriminatory impact on the protected class: Griggs v. Duke Power; The section 703(h) and 701(j) defenses -- testing, seniority, and "preferential treatment"; Remedies; Protection against retaliation; Title VII procedures for non-federal employees -- part VI. The Reconstruction Civil Rights Acts. 42 U.S.C.A. 1981 -- employment as "contract" that may not be discriminatorily denied; Conspiracies under 42 U.S.C.A. 1985(3) -- part VII. Doing business with government -- government contractors, executive orders and affirmative action programs. Introduction to regulation of discrimination by executive order; Coverage and substantive requirements of the executive order program; Judicial review by the agrieved individual; Miscellaneous statutory prohibitions of discrimination based on federal funding -- part VIII. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. Introduction to the Age Discrimination Act; Coverage; Substantive analysis of the plaintiff's case; Substantive analysis of the statutaory defenses; Procedures; Remedies.

LCCN

^^^76011190^

OCLC

• 2270144
• SCSB-9982296

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library