EMPLOYEE'S RIGHTS/EEOC

LABOR LAW EMPLOYEE'S RIGHTS/EEOC

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Background Employee-Employer Relationships Types of Employment Discrimination The EEOC Make-Up Of The EEOC Filing a Charge Procedures Enforcement and Relief Additional Resources Background

Claims of employee rights and DISCRIMINATION have become almost commonplace over the course of the last 30 years. Since the passage of the main civil right legislation in the 1960s—the Equal Pay Act, the C IVIL R IGHTS Act of 1964, and the Age Discrimination Employment Act (ADEA)—federal law has explicitly protected the rights of employees. The 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) added the disabled to the list of protected employees, and the 1991 Civil Rights Act expanded relief possibilities for all groups.

During the course of the last 40 years of employee rights law, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has come to play ...