HIS105

"President Nixon and Watergate" Please respond to the following: (Note: Please respond to one [1] of the following two [2] bulleted items in a primary posting of at least 125 words. In addition, please make a substantive comment to one [1] of your classmates.)

Our discussion examines a concern common in today’s workplace, discrimination and legalprotection from it. What protects employees from on-the-job discrimination? The EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Established as part of the broader war on povertyand inequality in the 1960s, legislators founded the EEOC within Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of1964. The EEOC legally protects employees and job applicants from discrimination based on race,color, religion, sex, and national origin. Recently added policies include: protecting former militarypersonnel from unfair hiring practices (1973); shielding workers with disabilities from inequitablehiring, firing and job tasks (1990); and defending employees over forty years old from age-relatedprejudice (1967). The EEOC, finally, investigates employer retaliation against employees who hadfiled claims of discrimination.

Why was the EEOC necessary in the 1960s? Given the many advancements made againstdiscrimination today, do we still need the EEOC? Explain your responses.

MORE INFORMATION: Do you want to read a brief history of the EEOC? see League InformationInstitute, Cornell University. (2015). Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Retrieved onMary 23, 2016 from https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/equal_employment_opportunity_commission