Title VII
Employment equality statute
Title VII is the section of the U.S.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
It applies to employers with fifteen or more employees and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce its provisions.
She filed a Title VII complaint after being passed over for promotion.
- disparate impactDiscrimination through neutral practices
- protected classCategory with anti-discrimination shields
- raceCompetition of speed
- religionSystem of spiritual belief
- Civil Rights ActLaw prohibiting discrimination
federal law · investigation · litigation · class action lawsuit · retaliation · sex · statute · whistleblower protections · gender identity · color · national origin · EEOC · settlement agreement · back pay · sexual orientation · workplace equality · regulation · legal precedent
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
- discrimination lawanti-discrimination, nondiscrimination, gender bias, pay discrimination, discrimination lawsuit
- discrimination lawsuitsemployment discrimination, age discrimination, gender discrimination, disability discrimination, sexual harassment
- gender equalitygender equality, gender equity, equal rights, equal pay, gender parity
- workplace equityequal opportunity, pay equity, fair employment, fair hiring, fair treatment
Title VIIJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
employment discrimination · segregation · workplace harassment · redlining · Plessy v. Ferguson