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American Disability Act and Affirmative Action Act
Critique of Modern Civil Rights Acts
The quest to ensure that every American's civil rights are guaranteed is still being waged today. New populations of disadvantaged are continuing to be guaranteed by modern legislation the same every day benefits the majority of the population often takes for granted. Acts like the American Disability Act and the Affirmative Action Act are continuing to provide for the American people to ensure that everyone gets the same benefits and rights; although some of these acts have been more successful than others.
The American Disability Act was a monumental piece of legislation aimed at helping protect the rights of vulnerable populations. For generations, there was little vocational protection for the disabled in the work environment. This often led to wrongful termination and even a complete lack of hiring people with disabilities. In 1990, the president Bush passed the American Disability Act. It took civil rights to a new population, the disabled (U.S. Equal Opportunities Commission, 2008). Much later in 2008, the Act was amended. It helped extended further protection to a wider base of the disabled population. It helped cover both government and...
Moreover, the piece of legislation helped guarantee basic services for individuals that have to deal with the issues of living with a disability. This helped extend public transportation services and businesses to have accommodations that allow disabled individuals to use their services, just like the rest of the population. Individuals with disabilities are now ensured that they will be able to use the same public and commercial services as everyone else. The Act has helped service professionals best provide for the well being of individuals with disabilities. Service professionals can now have disabled individuals come to their offices because public properties must have accommodations that can help such individuals get there. Moreover, it ensures that this population can find employment, which will undoubtedly help individuals find and afford a better quality of life. Great progress has been made, with a huge portion of the disabled population working and enjoying the day-to-day generalities that many people without vulnerabilities take for granted.
The next piece of legislation seen in this examination is the Affirmative Action plan,…
References
Dale, Charles V. (2005). Federal affirmative action law: A brief history. CRS Report for Congress. Web. http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rs22256.pdf
U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Opportunity Commission. (2008). Facts about the American Disability Act. Web. http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-ada.html
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity The policies of affirmative action aiming at assisting the black Americans are of recent origin. The policies have sought its origin to varied sources like legal structure, executive instructions, and court rulings. It was during the last three decades that these policies were being developed and they have become debatable as well. (Legal History) During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, a large number of African-Americans
Slotting summer jobs or paid internships specifically for high school, college and post-grad students with disabilities; (2) Affirmative action and mentoring for people with disabilities. (Whether and how to implement affirmative action depends on organizational culture and applicable law.); (3) Training and professional development for people with disabilities; (4) Accomplishments of goals, services available, etc. In your organization's newsletter, bulletin board and reports, to the extent that other groups
Affirmative Action Plan It is a fact that there has been discrimination in employment, where minorities, women, veterans and the disabled are sidelined in favor of the rest of the population. This ought to be provided with equitable access to employment opportunities and this is exactly what affirmative action plan does. By statistical analyses of the demographics, affirmative action programs are able to do away with the negative effects of employment
Affirmative Action has a long history; going back to the felt need by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to avert a march on Washington, DC in 1941 by 100,000 African-Americans who were protesting discriminatory hiring practices in the defense industry (Anderson 22). The signing of Executive Order 8802 began the long, multi-decade process of ending Jim Crow policies, racial segregation, and other forms of discrimination in the military, government agencies, and
Affirmative Action is an extremely important concept since it is vital to the operation of America as a democracy. It reinforces the affirmation of the Constitution that all people are born equal and should, therefore, be given an equal chance to prove themselves. Employment opportunity (and other factors) should be based on merit rather than on extraneous factors such as skin color, race, gender, physiology, and so forth. The Federal Register
Affirmative action simply paints a broader picture of the person being considered and helps overcome implicit selection bias or favoritism for groups that are more 'like us.' Although we might like to think so, in the words of President Clinton: "The job of ending discrimination in this country is not done" (Harris 1995) Affirmative action works by setting flexible goals for the organization, and these goals "are based on the