Author:M. Azim Ulfati

Legal Effects on Business 

Numerous laws that are enacted to protect consumers have been passed and business leaders have evolved to reflect this focus on consumer safety. Select one of the laws and determine its consumer safety effects within the past 20 years on the type of business in which you are currently employed or have been employed. Be sure to state the type of business in your response. Then, speculate how this law will impact business in the next 10 years, assuming it is not repealed. 

Assess how your business might be impacted financially should a consumer lawsuit be instigated arising from this law.

I work with a contracting company for US Department of Defense and I used to work with this company in the past almost two years and there were so many laws that reflected my job, like employee protections laws, federal laws which are prohibiting job discrimination and equal employment opportunity laws.

 I would like to discuss about federal laws which prohibits job discrimination. Considering Mission Essential Personnel Company and US Department of Defense is where people are from many different backgrounds, races, colors, religions, sex national origin and so on. Therefore federal laws are prohibiting discrimination based on title VII of the civil rights acts of 1964 (title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. When employees decides to start the paper work for testing and security clearance or screening, they are given a brief paper about laws and prohibiting discrimination law and they are required to read and sign those papers. In those papers the Federal laws, prohibiting discrimination is written like the following.

It is illegal to discriminate in any aspect of employment, including:

• Hiring and firing;
• Compensation, assignment, or classification of employees;
• Transfer, promotion, layoff, or recall;
• Job advertisements;
• Recruitment;
• Testing;
• Use of company facilities;
• Training and apprenticeship programs;
• Fringe benefits;
• Pay, retirement plans, and disability leave; or
• Other terms and conditions of employment.

Discriminatory practices under these laws also include:

• Harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetic information, or age;
• Retaliation against an individual for filing a charge of discrimination, participating in an investigation, or opposing discriminatory practices;
• Employment decisions based on stereotypes or assumptions about the abilities, traits, or performance of individuals of a certain sex, race, age, religion, or ethnic group, or individuals with disabilities, or based on myths or assumptions about an individual's genetic information; and
• Denying employment opportunities to a person because of marriage to, or association with, an individual of a particular race, religion, national origin, or an individual with a disability. Title VII also prohibits discrimination because of participation in schools or places of worship associated with a particular racial, ethnic, or religious group.

There is also employee protections laws that my job had to prevent and safe guarding employees and contractors and cover them from hazard and hardship, like injury at the front line of war or war zone areas, lack of potable water and healthy food at the front line of war. I believe that if the company does not comply with the above mentioned laws , it would effect the company financially millions of dollars and will be sued at local and international levels. It will also lead the company not to be given any contracts by government.