HR Compliance and Ethics Essay -- Business Human Resources

Today’s business performs in form of a corporation or an organization that consists with various people to conduct and perform work tasks for such a company to achieve its business goals. Therefore, those people who work for such companies should be treated equally for receiving an opportunity to achieve their lives as they are humans under the ethical and moral concern. Moreover, everyone who lives in the same nation should also have the right to pursue his or her achievement through ability of such a person, not because of other factors such as gender, age, race and ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disabilities, and social status, or because a person is discriminated by those factors. In 1961, Affirmative Action was created by President John F. Kennedy, which had its purpose regarded to gender and race in employment, and was a movement of Equal Employment Opportunity Act (Fullinwider, 2009; Gomez-Mejia & Balkin, 2002; University of California, 2002) According to Byras and Rues (2004), they defined that â€Å"equal employment opportunity refers to the right of all people to work and to advance on the basis of merit, ability and potential† (p. 43). Therefore, some important laws of equal employment opportunity in which human resources managers should know are as the following. Equal Pay Act of 1963 The Pay Act of 1963 prohibit sex-based discrimination in pay rate to employees which means employees of such companies who work the same or similar jobs get paid the same rate of pay either they are man or woman. However, the act allow such companies to use difference of wage, salary, or other compensations based on seniority, merit, quantity and quality of production, or a differential due to any factors other than sex and oth... ...ed April 29, 2010, from . Fielding, J. (1990). Discrimination law—impermissible use of the necessity defense and the bona fide occupational qualification. Western New England Law Review, 12(1), pp. 135-165. Retrieved April 28, 2010, from Google Scholar database. Fullinwider, R. (2009). Affirmative Action. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved November 5, 2009, from . Gomez-Mejia, L. R. & Balkin, D. B. (2002) Management. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Mathis, R. L. & Jackson, J. H. (2006). Human resources management (11th e.d.). Ohio: Thomson Corporation. University of California at Irvine. (2002). A brief history of affirmative action. (updated 11/02/2005). Retrieved November 5, 2009, from .