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| Equal Employment Opportunity |
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| The condition in which all individuals have an equal chance for employment, regardless of their race, color, relicion, sex, age, disability, or national origin |
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| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
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| Agency of the Department of Justice charged with enforcing TItle VII of the CIvil RIghts Act of 1964 and other antidiscrimination laws |
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| An organization's active effort to find opportunities to hire or promote people in a particular group |
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| under the americans with disabilities act, a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a record of having such an impairment, or being regarded as having such an impairmment |
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| the EEOC's employer informatoin report, which counts employees sorted by job category, sex, ethnicity, and race |
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| uniform guidelines on employee selection procedures |
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| guidelines issued by the EEOC and other agencies to identify how an organization should develop and administer its system for selecting employees to as not to violate antidiscrimination laws |
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| office of federal contract compliance procedures |
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| the agency responsible for enforcing the executive orders that cover compaies doing business with the federal government |
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| differing treatment of individuals, where teh differences are based on the individuals' race, color, religions, sex, national origin, age, or disability status |
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| bona fide occupational qualification |
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| a necessary (not merely preferred) qualification for performing a job |
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| a condition in which employment practices are seemingly neutral yet disproportioately exclude a protected group from employment opportunities |
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| rule of thumb that finds evidence of discrimination if an organization's hiring rate for a minority group is less than four-fifths the hiring rate for the majority group |
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| an employer's obligation to do something to enable an otherwise qualified person to perform a job |
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| unwelcome sexual advances as defined by the EEOC |
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| Occupational safety and health act |
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| US law authorizing the federal government to establish and enforce occupational safety and health standards for all places of employment engaging in interstate commerce |
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| occupational safety and health administration |
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| labor department agency responsible for inspecting employers, applying safety and health standards, and levying fines violation. |
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| state laws that require employers to provide employees with information about the health risks associated with exposure to substances considered hazardous |
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| material safety data sheets (MSDSs) |
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| forms on which chemical manufactureers and importers identify the hazards of their chemicals |
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| job hazard analysis technique |
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| safety promotion technique that involves breaking down a job into basic elements, then rating each element for its potential for harm or injury |
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| technic of operations review |
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| method of promoting safety by determining which specific element of ajob led to a past accident |
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