Case Law regarding Childcare Discrimination
Breastfeeding is an important practice for a mother and her baby psychologically, economically, and in terms of health. Thus, the practice needs to be done exclusively within the first six months of a child’s life and slightly extended to the time the child begins to take supplementary foods. When mothers are able to adequately breastfeed, the rate at which children contract infectious disease, develop obesity, and other forms of health disorders, significantly goes down. More so, the risk of women developing cancer of the breast is greatly weakened. Thus, exclusive breastfeeding is also beneficial to the government and the employers as health insurance cost goes down and absenteeism of women at …show more content…
That is, the person is considered unfit for the position he/she holds. The natural habit of looking at a certain group of people differently can be controlled, as there are factors that have been found to influence how a person thinks of another person especially if he or she is different in terms of age, race, gender, or others. To begin by looking at how the organizational structures were in the past where people were organized according to hierarchies and their duties and responsibilities, it is established that these structures encouraged increased stereotyping against the minority groups. The different/negative treatment known by all the workers prevented members of the minority groups to make advancements within the organization. The changes that took place within the business environment from the 1980s where firms needed to become highly competitive, employers began to recognize the different talents of each employee and the hierarchies were no longer necessary. The changes that took place also enabled people to be able to look at each other differently by valuing the differences that exist among them. Hence, when a person from a minority group is found holding a higher position in an organization, the habit of stereotyping people according to the groups they …show more content…
The law evolved to address the “unconscious bias” that had prevailed in America where the white’s community had preference for those that belonged to their community and their men stereotyped their women (Begenstos, 2007). The way organizations developed by themselves to recognize all employees as important assets in business and the evolution of the antidiscrimination laws, the current organization of firms can be said to have enabled the law have some social meaning in its effort to regulate the society in general. Further developments of the law are those claimed to establish new obligations for employers and rights for employees and increased social change takes place when the contextual forcers build up on the meaning of what the law intends. Hence, the new practices or structures that organizations are now adopting are those that show their compliance to the law. Therefore, the organizational practices and structures hold a certain meaning, which is, an evidence of being compliant to the applicable laws and law enforcers evaluate the practices and the structures to evaluate how an organization failed to be compliant. However, the presence of these practices and structures do not guarantee that the organization is compliant and this may be a challenge to the law enforcers in proving whether they are active as claimed to
Breastfeeding is an important practice for a mother and her baby psychologically, economically, and in terms of health. Thus, the practice needs to be done exclusively within the first six months of a child’s life and slightly extended to the time the child begins to take supplementary foods. When mothers are able to adequately breastfeed, the rate at which children contract infectious disease, develop obesity, and other forms of health disorders, significantly goes down. More so, the risk of women developing cancer of the breast is greatly weakened. Thus, exclusive breastfeeding is also beneficial to the government and the employers as health insurance cost goes down and absenteeism of women at …show more content…
That is, the person is considered unfit for the position he/she holds. The natural habit of looking at a certain group of people differently can be controlled, as there are factors that have been found to influence how a person thinks of another person especially if he or she is different in terms of age, race, gender, or others. To begin by looking at how the organizational structures were in the past where people were organized according to hierarchies and their duties and responsibilities, it is established that these structures encouraged increased stereotyping against the minority groups. The different/negative treatment known by all the workers prevented members of the minority groups to make advancements within the organization. The changes that took place within the business environment from the 1980s where firms needed to become highly competitive, employers began to recognize the different talents of each employee and the hierarchies were no longer necessary. The changes that took place also enabled people to be able to look at each other differently by valuing the differences that exist among them. Hence, when a person from a minority group is found holding a higher position in an organization, the habit of stereotyping people according to the groups they …show more content…
The law evolved to address the “unconscious bias” that had prevailed in America where the white’s community had preference for those that belonged to their community and their men stereotyped their women (Begenstos, 2007). The way organizations developed by themselves to recognize all employees as important assets in business and the evolution of the antidiscrimination laws, the current organization of firms can be said to have enabled the law have some social meaning in its effort to regulate the society in general. Further developments of the law are those claimed to establish new obligations for employers and rights for employees and increased social change takes place when the contextual forcers build up on the meaning of what the law intends. Hence, the new practices or structures that organizations are now adopting are those that show their compliance to the law. Therefore, the organizational practices and structures hold a certain meaning, which is, an evidence of being compliant to the applicable laws and law enforcers evaluate the practices and the structures to evaluate how an organization failed to be compliant. However, the presence of these practices and structures do not guarantee that the organization is compliant and this may be a challenge to the law enforcers in proving whether they are active as claimed to