Summary

Equal employment opportunity laws have continued to evolve. They create legal responsibilities for employers and affect all aspects of the employment relationship. Recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, promotion, and termination must all be conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner.

Whereas equal employment opportunity is a policy of nondiscrimination, affirmative action requires employers to analyze their workforce and develop plans of action to recruit, select, train, and promote members of protected classes and develop plans of action to correct areas in which past discrimination may have occurred. Affirmative action in the United States is jointly determined by the Constitution, legislative acts, executive orders, ...

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