This course is designed to explain how the basic legal concepts of employment discrimination, are applied in the areas of disparate treatment and harassment on the bases of race, color and national origin. The regulations and case law affecting these areas are reviewed. This course equips practitioners to advise management on the best ways to prevent complaints of ethnic discrimination and harassment, and how to avoid agency liability when they do occur.

Course Components

Chapter 1: Definitions: Race, Color and National Origin
Chapter 2: Ethnic Factors in Employment Decisions
Chapter 3: National Origin: Dress and Language
Chapter 4: Harassment

Learning Outcomes

After completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Explain the distinction between race and color.
• Explain what constitutes national origin under the law, and what does not.
• Advise management on how to avoid discrimination in hiring and promotion on the basis of ethnic factors.
• Advise management on legal protection of national dress.
• Explain the protection of employees with foreign accents, and when "English Only" rules are acceptable.
• Describe what workplace behaviors can trigger a successful complaint of harassment on the basis of ethnic factors.
• Explain how the law treats complaints by members of the majority groups as well as minorities
• Complete chapter assessments with 100% mastery and the final assessment with 80% mastery.

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