Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A federal law that prohibits employment discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, sex, pregnancy, religion, and national origin, as well as prohibiting retaliation against an employee who opposes illegal harassment or discrimination in the workplace. • This term is often referred to simply as […]
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Pregnancy-Discrimination Act. A federal statute that prohibits workplace discrimination against a pregnant woman or against a woman affected by childbirth or a related medical condition. 42 USCA § 2000. • The Pregnancy-Discrimination Act is part of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. — Abbr. PDA.
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A class of people who benefit from protection by statute, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, or religion. [Cases: Civil Rights 1007, 1107, 1152, 1165. C.J.S. Civil Rights §§ 2–5, 7–9, 11–13, 18, 22, 26–27, 30–31, 33–37, 41–42, 44, 67, 88.]
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. An independent federal commission that investigates claims of employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or age and enforces antidiscrimination statutes through lawsuits. • It was created by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC encourages mediation and other nonlitigious means of resolving employment
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national origin. The country in which a person was born, or from which the person’s ancestors came. • This term is used in several antidiscrimination statutes, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination because of an individual’s “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” 42 USCA § 2000e-2. [Cases:
ministerial-function test. The principle that the First Amendment bars judicial resolution of a Title VII employment-discrimination based on a religious preference, if the employee’s responsibilities are religious in nature, as in spreading faith, supervising a religious order, and the like. 42 USCA § 2000e-1(a). See TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF1964. [Cases: Civil
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