BUSN 4650 Exam Study Questions & 100% Solutions (Verified Answers)
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What are DEFENSES for Title VII? - - BFOQ (Bona Fide Occupational Qualifier)/Business
Necessity Limitation: discrimination is OK if on the basis of BFOQ needed to run a business or necessity
- Business necessity for disparate impact
TRUE or FALSE: Discrimination and policies with disparate impac...
BUSN 4650 Exam Study Questions &
100% Solutions (Verified Answers)
What are DEFENSES for Title VII? - ✔✔- BFOQ (Bona Fide Occupational Qualifier)/Business
Necessity Limitation: discrimination is OK if on the basis of BFOQ needed to run a business or necessity
- Business necessity for disparate impact
TRUE or FALSE: Discrimination and policies with disparate impact are illegal. - ✔✔TRUE
What are types of disparate impacts (remember they're illegal)? - ✔✔- Personnel tests that
no substantial relation to the job
- Use of credit ratings in certain instances
- Preferring relatives
TRUE or FALSE: Speaking a native language CAN be barred (blocked) by an ER. - ✔✔FALSE...Title
VII protects ethnic groups.
- SO, policy MUST justify that speaking English IS a business necessity.
TRUE or FALSE: ERs must accept reasonable accommodations due to religious needs by EEs. -
✔✔TRUE!
ERs cannot discriminate on the basis of religion in employment practice
What are TWO things that the EEOC forbids in terms of basis of sex? - ✔✔1. classifying jobs male
or female
2. advertise in help-wanted columns that are designated male or female
, What happened in the case of Easterling v. Connecticut? - ✔✔- Dept. of Corrections imposed a
physical fitness test to screen candidates. Women were significantly more likely to fail the test (test
included 1.5 mile run, pull ups, etc.)
- RULING: one doesn't need to run 1.5 miles, at a curtain speech, to be a corrections-officer - or it's a bad
test to be one. Among other things.
- HOLDING: Violation of Title VII because disparate impact is illegal
What happened in the case of Healey v. Southwood? - ✔✔- A woman who was a full-time care
nurse at a hospital was staffed on the overnight shift SPECIFICALLY because her gender
- Hospital sought to always have one man and one woman on duty
- Court: Disparate Treatment because woman was given assignment because her gender
- Hospital had a BFOQ so no violation of Title VII
In the case of Healey v. Southwood, why was there NO violation of Title VII? - ✔✔- Court has
found that hospital had a BFOQ
- Quality of treating patients was affected by whether certain genders/sexes/ were staffed
What happened in the case of Reeves v. City of Yonkers? - ✔✔- Ms. Reeves worked for a City
Councilman, Michael Sabatino. She decided to run for office against Sabatino. She took time off work for
medical issues and Sabatino suspected that she was using time to campaign and raise money. He fired
her for "conflict of interest"
- Title VII makes it unlawful for an ER to discriminate on race, color, religion, and sex
- COURT: Title VII does NOT protect medical disability or one's political affiliation/activities. NO
VIOLATION.
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