Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. Review Chapter 1, “Hiring,” in The Employer’s Legal Handbook.
3. Go to the webpage “Employers” by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
4. Navigate to the EEOC website to review the easily accessible resources that are especially beneficial for human resource managers, then respond to the questions below.NOTE: As you navigate the website, be sure to obtain information that will be needed for any references for each specific EEOC web page you plan to cite in the discussion forum whether using a paraphrase or a direct quote.
   1. EEOC Enforcement of Federal Law. Name one federal law the EEOC enforces and summarize that law in one or two sentences.
   2. Prohibited Practice. Review the list of EEOC’s “Prohibited Employment Policies/Practices” and answer the following:
      1. Identify one prohibited practice and summarize that prohibited practice in one or two sentences.
      2. Assess whether your company, or a company you are familiar with, (a) excels at prohibiting this practice or (b) needs to improve on its prohibition of this practice. Explain.
   3. Pioneer Hotel Case Study. Read the following case study and provide your recommendations for how Pioneer can make improvements in the workplace.
      1. In June 2015, Pioneer Hotel, Inc. in Laughlin, Nevada agreed to pay $150,000 and furnish other relief to settle a national origin and color discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC. The EEOC charged that a class of Latino and/or brown-skinned workers was subjected to a barrage of highly offensive and derogatory comments about their national origin and/or skin color since at least 2006. Housekeeping and security department staffers in particular were constantly the targets of slurs by several supervisors and co-workers. In addition, the EEOC asserted that Latino/brown-skinned workers were told not to speak Spanish during their break times. Pioneer failed to stop and rectify the harassment and discrimination despite repeated complaints by the Latino/brown-skinned workers. Pioneer entered into a four-year consent decree that prohibits Pioneer from creating, facilitating or permitting a hostile work environment for employees who are Latino or darker-skinned.

   U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Pioneer Hotel, Inc. d/b/a Pioneer Hotel and Gambling Hall, D. NV. (2014) Case No. 2:11-cv-01588-LRH-GWF

   1. 1. 1. As the newly appointed HR Director at Pioneer Hotel, what are three strategies you would implement to help remedy the current situation or to take proactive steps to encourage a future work environment that is free of discriminatory practices?
         2. Identify biblical principle(s) that would apply to this case when drawing upon insight from the 1.1 Exercise and your knowledge and research of Scripture.
   2. Provide a detailed post that demonstrates clear, insightful critical thinking. Your initial post should be 200–300 words long.
   3. Your initial post is to include the appropriate references for resources you have cited as a paraphrase or direct quote. Keep direct quotes and paraphrases limited to a maximum of 15% of the overall initial posting. For help on how to paraphrase, refer to the Purdue OWL Paraphrase website.
   4. Post your initial discussion by the end of the fourth day of the workshop.
   5. Also respond to two of your classmates’ postings by the end of the workshop. Each discussion response to a classmate should facilitate engaging dialogue and evidence critical thinking. Use one or more of the following ways to engage in scholarly dialogue and expand learning around the topics in this workshop:

• Extension: Expand the discussion.
• Relevancy: Relate the topic to a current event.
• Exploratory: Probe facts and basic knowledge.
• Challenge: Interrogate assumptions, conclusions or interpretations.
• Relational: Make comparisons or contrasts of themes, ideas, or issues.
• Diagnostic: Probe motives or causes.
• Action: Identify application or an action in personal or work life.
• Cause & Effect: Cite causal relationships between ideas, actions or events.
• Hypothetical: Pose a change in the facts or issues.
• Priority: Seek to identify the most important issues.
• Summary: Elicit synthesis. (Teacher Stream, LLC, 2009)

Each response should be 200–300 words in length and include two resources properly cited and referenced. Choose at least two from the following list: (a) The Employer’s Legal Handbook, (b) the EEOC website, and (c) an article in a widely published newspaper (i.e., Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, or HR Management, a journal published by SHRM—the Society for Human Resource Management).

Reference

Teacher Stream, LLC. (2009). Mastering online discussion board facilitation. https://teaching.temple.edu/sites/tlc/files/resource/pdf/MasteringOnlineDiscussionBoardFacilitation.pdf