Law 12 vocabulary chapter 5

Question 1

Accomodate

Answer 1

eliminate or adjust requirements or conditions to ensure that a person can carry out the duties of a job. (employer must do things to make sure employee can work well with no issues)

Question 2

Accomodation

Answer 2

The place where people live, or want to live

Question 3

Affirmative Action

Answer 3

Giving advantages to those people who have been discriminated against in the past

Question 4

bona fide occupational requirement

Answer 4

When specific skills are necessary for a job that people may not have the skill for and are not hired for a job or are fired is not discrimination

Question 5

Complainant

Answer 5

The person making the allegation of discrimination. (person who filed the complaint)

Question 6

Conciliation

Answer 6

Bringing conflicting parties to a resolution

Question 7

Constructive discrimination

Answer 7

employment policies that inadvertently exclude certain individuals resulting in discrimination (eg. height requirement in police stations used to discriminate against women and most minority groups because too short)

Question 8

Direct discrimination

Answer 8

An overt act of discrimination. (eg. you cannot get a job because you are a woman=direct discrimination)

Question 9

Discrimination

Answer 9

Making a distinction between people and treating them differently on a basis other than individual merit (like an officer and a soldier is not discrimination)

Question 10

Facilities

Answer 10

Areas or buildings designated for public use

Question 11

Gravamen

Answer 11

The most serious part of an accusation (in discrimination it is what the discrimination was, eg. color, race, sex)

Question 12

Harassment

Answer 12

Persistent behavior that violates the human rights of the person (victim)

Question 13

Human rights

Answer 13

• The right to receive equal treatment
• The right to be free from prohibited discrimination and harassment
• The right to have access to places, services, and opportunities

Question 14

Human rights codes

Answer 14

Legal documents that protect people from prohibited discrimination

Question 15

Mediation

Answer 15

Intervention between conflicting parties that promotes compromise or settlement of the dispute

Question 16

Poisoned environment

Answer 16

An uncomfortable or disturbing atmosphere created by the negative comments or behavior of others

Question 17

Prejudice

Answer 17

A preconceived opinion based on a stereotype or inadequate information

Question 18

Prima facie

Answer 18

Legally convincing unless disproved by contrary evidence

Question 19

Respondent

Answer 19

The person or organization that the complainant alleges committed discrimination

Question 20

Services

Answer 20

Ways of meeting consumer needs that do not involve purchase of tangible goods

Question 21

Sexual harrasment

Answer 21

Unwelcome sexual contact, remarks, leering, demands for dates, requests for sexual favors, and displays of sexually offensive pictures or graffiti

Question 22

Stereotyping

Answer 22

Having an oversimplified, standardized, or fixed judgement of a group or people

Question 23

Undue hardship

Answer 23

The result of a change that would affect the economic viability of an enterprise or produce a substantial health and safety risk that outweighs the benefit of the accommodation.