Federal Laws and Employees

According to the EEOC, requiring medical examinations for only those applicants that an employer believes might be incapable of performing the job is a violation of the law (EEOC Notice, 1995).

(b) According to an essay written by Jacques Chambers and published online by the Hepatitis C Support Project, employers trying to select qualified candidates are sometimes confused about the legality of pre-employment medical tests. An employer may not require applicants to take a pre-employment medical examination until a job offer has been made. The employer may then make the job offered conditional upon receipt of a satisfactory result of the medical examination, but only if this examination is required of all employees in the same job category.

A conditional job offer may only be withdrawn for medical reasons if the reason is job-related and there is no reasonable accommodation that would permit the applicant to perform the essential job functions (Chambers, 2004).

(c) According to an essay by Victor

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policies required that measures be taken to ensure that blacks and other minorities enjoyed the same opportunities for promotions, career advancement, school admissions, and financial aid as whites. From the outset, affirmative action was viewed as a temporary remedy that would end once there was a level playing field for all Americans. By the late 1970s, some Americans began to complain about flaws in affirmative action policies. One of these criticisms involved a concept called reverse discrimination. Reverse discrimination involves the claim that the rights of white males are not protected under affirmative action. In the Bakke case, a white male who was rejected by a medical school twice that had accepted less qualified minority applicants sued. As a result of this lawsuit, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed inflexible quota systems in affirmative action programs. The Court agreed that Bakke had proven that these quotas unfairly discriminated against white males. However, the Court upheld the legality of affirmative action. According to Brunner, a backlash against affirmative action has occurred. The debate about affirmative action has become more complex and difficult as the general public begins to appreciate the implicatio
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