Employment Laws -- Who Are Term Paper

Many of the gaps in protection, such as afforded under Supreme Court precedent to members of suspect classes have since been strengthened by various acts of Congress, such as those in connection with employment discrimination against disabled workers, and those over 45 years of age (Edwards, Wallenberg, & Lineberry, 2008). Undoubtedly, employment (and other forms of) discrimination against members of suspect classifications still occur even today; however, whereas in the past employers did so very openly and unashamedly, that is no longer possible today (Dershowitz, 2002; Halbert & Ingulli, 2007).

Conclusion

Despite the tremendous progress in civil rights in the last century, federal law does not yet recognize employment (or other types of) discrimination against many categories of minorities, such as homosexuals and transgender individuals, among others. It also affords significantly less protection to certain federally-recognized minority classifications than it allows in connection with the suspect classifications such as race and ethnicity. However, the laws of many individual states supplement the protections available to those classes of employees and job applicants and specifically recognize additional classifications of protected classes in relation to employment discrimination, in addition to discrimination in housing, for example. Ultimately, the apparent trend of American law is to recognize all forms of discrimination in all walks of life and against all victims of prejudice and unfair treatment. When that is eventually achieved, it will have finally rectified some pf the last remaining vestiges of institutionalized injustice in the United States.

References

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Edwards GC, Wallenberg MP, and Lineberry RB. (2008). Government in America:

People, Politics, and Policy. New York: Longman.

Halbert T. And Ingulli E. (2007). Law…