The article analyzes a sample of political discourse, namely the speech entitled “We Want Our Country Back”, delivered by the British nationalist, MEP, Ashley Mote. In the communication situation, the audience is made up of conservative, right-wing politicians or supporters, mainly readers...

This article investigates misclassification and antidiscrimination. Misclassification is employers' practice of classifying workers as independent contractors whom the law would categorize as employees. Misclassified workers are exempt from most federal antidiscrimination statutes, unless they...

Against the backdrop of the September 11, 2001 attacks, conventional wisdom suggests that employers would be willing to disclose information about prospective employees that may be deleterious to a new, hiring employer. Furthermore, one would also expect the converse to be true: employers will...

Religion is the most paradox, intriguing and social active factor in the world history since the beginning of human society and till the end of it, no matter how evolved or primitive its precepts ever were. For that reason Religion was always a subject for endless study in different perspectives...

Employment discrimination is a multidimensional problem. In many instances, some combination of employer bias, the organization of work, and employees' responses to these conditions, leads to worker inequality. Title VII does not sufficiently account for these dynamics in two significant...

The presence of an estimated 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, of which an estimated 7.2 million are working, has become a flashpoint in the emerging national debate about immigration. Given these statistics, it is not surprising that many undocumented workers suffer...

Employers and employment systems have been inflexible when it comes to accommodating a woman’s dual role as childbearer and employee. This inflexibility is a frustrating inconvenience and harsh reality that women must confront daily. Women are being passed over for promotions, fired for...

The debate over market/individual regulation and freedom is not a new discussion. However, a clear understanding of the freedoms (or the lack of freedoms) and their economic consequences on early black Americans provides an informative understanding to the freedoms (or the lack of freedoms), and...

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Employers must be careful about the intentional and unintentional effect of their employment practices, even when acting with good motive. Title VII’s disparate impact provision holds employers liable for employment practices that cause an...

Hay dos temas transversales que se abordan en este volumen; uno es la exclusión, definida como la restricción de la posibilidad de acceso a algún servicio, bien público u oportunidad, entendida esta en el sentido amplio. La segunda es la discriminación, entendida como el trato desigual,...