[fabsroman]

Aim to Maim,

The reason it is not going to happen is because we have a bunch of idiots in office, but nobody respectable wants to run for office because of all the crap that goes on. Such is life.

If I were in charge of this whole thing, there would still be immigration allowed, but it would be controlled immigration. People would be allowed in in an orderly fashion.

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Here are the protected areas of the law:

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination

the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older;
Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments

Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities who work in the federal government

the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.

Essentially, an employer cannot discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age if the person is over 40, or disability if the person can perform the job at hand.

Whether or not a person is hired because he can or cannot speak Spanish does not qualify as discrimination if speaking Spanish is a legitimate requirement of the position. Likewise, not hiring somebody because they cannot speak English is not discrimination.

I don't deal much with employment law, but I did come across a case where 17 white male police officers filed an employment discrimination case against the department because the black police chief was only promoting blacks and hispanics even though the white men were just as qualified. They white mail police officers won millions of dollars. Great verdict.

Yes, discrimination happens on both ends of race, which seems to be the biggest issue. It also happens based upon sex. At the firm I was working at, they were scared to hire a female associate because she might get pregnant. Definitely discrimination, but try figuring that out if you are a female applicant that gets turned down for a position. The firm wouldn't tell them that it is because they are a female. Personally, I think we should all have a lie detector attached to us. Things would go much smoother then and people wouldn't ask questions they do not want answers to. Then again, I might end up in trouble with my wife.