July Weekly Assignment
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WeekThreeAssignmentPaper24July2022.docxWeekly Paper Assignment Rubric and Instructions
There will be one paper assigned each week. You may choose any topic from this week's readings. Gather information from the textbook and outside sources. You may use APA or MLA to format your citations, but YOU MUST use Times New Roman 11-point font, 1.5 spacing, and 1-inch margins. The paper length below refers to textual content. Title pages, abstracts, charts, graphs, pictures, references sections, etc. will not be considered as part of your page length. These are extras added to enhance the paper. Please cite all of your sources. This paper is due Friday night. The papers are worth forty points each week, for a total of 160 points.
Quality of Weekly Papers
Level 1
The topic is relevant to readings and covers information from the textbook. The textbook is cited as the source as well as at least one outside source.
Level 2
Level 1 plus – Paper uses personal examples and applies theories to the author's current position and circumstances. The Paper thoroughly covers the topic using at least three outside sources.
Level 3
Level 2 plus – Going above and beyond to provide cutting-edge trends and changes in the topic. The paper includes data from current sources and a chart or graph in appendices. The paper brings in information from current year sources and cites five sources outside the text. Cite sources in-text and include the full source at the end of the paper. The appendix includes visual representations of data and any examples referenced in the paper.
Week Three Topic: Sexual Orientation
Pages: Five pages exclusively (plus title and reference pages = 7).
Textbook:
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Employment Law: New Challenges in the Business Environment, 6e Moran
Chapter 13
Sexual Orientation
Employment Law:
New Challenges in the Business Environment
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Chapter Checklist
Know that protection under the Civil Rights Act does not extend to sexual orientation.
Learn that certain states and cities do provide sexual orientation protection.
Realize that people with AIDS or sexually transmitted diseases will be safeguarded under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Appreciate that gay and lesbian employees can cover their partners under their health plan in a small but growing numbers of companies.
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Understand that gays and lesbians may serve in the military.
Recognize that schoolteachers should not be judged by their sexual orientation but on their ability to teach and follow the course curriculum.
- Be cognizant of the arguments presented for those advocating gay rights in employment and those against it.
- Be careful about judging others whose lifestyle may not conform to yours lest they judge you in return.
Chapter Checklist (Cont.)
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Title VII of the Civil Right Act
Does not prohibit employers from refusing to hire or subsequently firing someone because he or she is homosexual.
Most commonly used terms are sexual affinity and sexual orientation.
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Available Protection
Gays and lesbians working pursuant to employment contracts or employee handbooks may be protected by a clause in the agreement requiring that an employee may be discharged only for cause.
Some courts have overruled dismissal of gay employees based on public policy considerations.
Twenty states have sexual orientation laws.
Sixteen states have laws protecting transgendered individuals.
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Homosexual Partners
Currently, gays and lesbians do not have the legal right to include their partners under their health coverage.
Fortune 500 companies offer domestic partner health benefits with some extending it to heterosexual couples who live together.
Homosexual marriages are not legally sanctioned except in a few states partners are considered mere friends who are not qualified for coverage.
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Federal Government’s Policy
The federal government’s treatment of gays and lesbians is inconsistent.
Some agencies discriminate while others do not.
On December 21, 1973, the commission issued a directive in its Civil Service Bulletin which provided that, with respect to employment, no action should be taken against a person because he or she is a homosexual.
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Teaching In Schools
Most heated debate is over whether gays and lesbians should be allowed to teach in the public school system and work in day care centers.
Fear persists among many that gays will indoctrinate the children in the homosexual way of life.
Homosexuality is not synonymous with pedophilia. Pedophilia is a sickness unrelated to sexual orientation. Constituency in pedophilia exists in both homosexual and heterosexual adults.
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Acceptance or Tolerance
Many gays and lesbians want their lifestyles to be tolerated to the point where people will not be shocked to learn their choice and discrimination will not take place.
Acceptance of gays and lesbians may never take place but tolerance must.
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Human Resource Advice
Discover whether state or local protection for sexual orientation exists where you live.
Choose whether to allow gays and lesbians to cover their partners under the health plan you provide.
Decide whether you will take sexual orientation into account in your employment decisions.
Be cognizant of the power of the gay and lesbian lobby.
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Human Resource Advice (Cont.)
Distinguish gays and lesbians, transsexuals and transvestites from each other in determining company policy.
Realize that the ADA extends to people with AIDS or sexually transmitted diseases.
Be aware of the trend among public and private employers to provide more protection to gays and lesbians.
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Summary
The practical solution is to mandate tolerance. Society would like you to love everybody, but society can require you to tolerate everybody.
Society may have a higher goal acceptance, realistically, it should be looking to achieve removal of discrimination from the workplace and everyday life.
