US Antidiskriminierungsgesetze

In den USA regiert des Prinzip des Hire & Fire und Termination at Will – ABER, das Pendant dazu sind die Andidiskriminierungsgesetze, die gegen eine Vielzahl von Kündigungen ins Feld geführt werden, Verstöße sind zudem mit oftmals erheblichen Schadensersatzforderungen verbunden; also immer nur wegen mangelnder Leistung kündigen (sehen wir an dieser Stelle einmal von betriebsbedingten Kündigungen ab). Nachfolgend eine Aufstellung der entsprechenden Gesetze / Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination; Federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Laws

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, as amended (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; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), which prohibits employment discrimination based on genetic information about an applicant, employee, or former employee; and the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces all of these laws. EEOC also provides oversight and coordination of all federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and policies.

Other federal laws, not enforced by EEOC, also prohibit discrimination and reprisal against federal employees and applicants. The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) contains a number of prohibitions, known as prohibited personnel practices, which a…

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