Employment law

Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity

Affirmative action refers to a set of positive practices or good faith efforts that are assumed by employers , university admissions offices and government agencies to ensure equal employment opportunities to avoid cases of discrimination and eliminate barriers in regards to employment ADDIN EN .CITE HolzerHarry HolzerAffirmative Action What Do We Know ?2007M ay 112006January 5 2006Urban Institutehttp /www .urban .org /publi cations /1000862 .htmlEOOEOO Affirmative action2007May 11 University of Kansas Medical Center Employment Opportunity Office (EOO )http

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Its history would be traced back in the 1960 's when President John F Kennedy first utilized the term in an executive in 1961 formulated to encourage contractors on projects managed with federal funds to racially assimilate labor forces ADDIN EN .CITE EncartaMicrosoft EncartaAffirmative Action2007May 122007MSNhttp /encarta .msn .com /encyclopedia_6 /Affi rmative_Action .html (Encarta , 2007 . And 1969 , President Richard Nixon pioneered the implementation of federal policies that favour hiring and employment of the minority . The Nixon administration conceptualized the Philadelphia Plan that obliged contractors to develop their goals for hiring minorities . This have been due to the prevalent discrimination and social exclusion the racial or ethnic or minority population as well as women have been subjected to in most of the history of the United States . Not only were they unequally and unlawful experiencing limited and discriminated opportunities in employment , but also in land-owning education , voting and public accommodations ADDIN EN .CITE EOOEOO Affirmative action2007May 11 University of Kansas Medical Center Employment Opportunity Office (EOO )http /www .kumc .edu /eoo /aff .ht ml intention (EOO 2007 . Moreover , affirmative action is not a law ADDIN EN .CITE EOOEOO Affirmative action2007May 11 University of Kansas Medical Center Employment Opportunity Office (EOO )http /www .kumc .edu /eoo /aff .ht ml intention (EOO 2007 . But the US government gives the President the right and power to issue executive s such as the EO 11246 issued by President Johnson in 1965 . It necessitates the federal contractors to undertake affirmative action to ensure that applicants would be employed without any sort of discrimination in regards with race , nationality , age or sex . Also in the mentioned EO , federal contractors and subcontractors (with contracts of 50 ,000 or more ) are obliged to recognize underused minorities , measure minority availability and compose regulations and timeframe to reduce such underusage whenever possible ADDIN EN .CITE HolzerHarry HolzerAffirmative Action What Do We Know ?2007M ay 112006January 5 2006Urban Institutehttp /www .urban .org /publi cations /1000862 .html (Holzer , 2006 . Furthermore in 1967 , this function and regulation was extended to women by the power of the Executive 11375

The Affirmative action specifically aims to require contractors to execute affirmative action plans to equal ensure employment opportunities without discrimination to the characters as stated above Along with it are the goals of continuously improving the economic status of racial or minority groups as well as women not only in terms of employment , but also in other aspects such...