Some Tips to Prevent Employment Discrimination Lawsuits
A Faith-Based Legal Guide for Managers
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This book differs from most other books on employment discrimination in two respects. First, it discusses not only the law on employment discrimination but also what the Bible has to say about employment discrimination. Second, it discusses not only what employers can do, but also what employees can do, to prevent discrimination in the workplace. This book tries to prevent discrimination in the workplace by encouraging the offenders (employers who discriminate) and some of the victims (some of the employees who are, or feel, discriminated against) to both change their way of thinking. The book will show that discrimination is forbidden not only by law but by the Bible. However, the Bible discourages lawsuits. “Do not sue the Brethren . . . . It is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another,” St. Paul told the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 6:1–7). “Avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless,” he told Titus (Titus 3:9). How do we prevent discrimination without suing the offenders? The book argues that the proper way to prevent discrimination is through effort by employers and employees. Most of the effort should come from employers. They should try harder to be color-blind, gender-blind, age-blind, religion-blind, and national origin–blind when dealing with their employees. But some of the effort should come from employees. If some employees will alter their behavior a bit, they will not be discriminated against. Effort by employers and employees will enable employers to avoid lawsuits and enable employees to avoid discrimination.
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Some Tips to Prevent Employment Discrimination Lawsuits teaches employers a faith-based (Judeo-Christian) strategy to help increase productivity and reduce litigation. Filled with excellent, innovative practical tips, the book teaches employers how to prevent race discrimination, gender discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, disability discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, genetics discrimination, and sexual harassment in the workplace; how to reduce the number of, and dollar amount of, discrimination lawsuits brought by employees against employers; and how to reduce legal expenses in these lawsuits. In addition to legal tips and practical tips, Robinson includes some biblical passages he thinks can, if employers keep them in mind, help employers achieve these goals.
Robinson addresses many difficult questions: Should employers be race-conscious and gender-conscious when hiring and managing employees, or race-blind and gender-blind? Should employers be more lenient with aging and disabled employees than with other employees, or treat everyone the same? Do laws that protect gays from discrimination in the workplace conflict with, or comply with, biblical teachings? And many other important questions on the minds of managers today.
About the Author
David A. Robinson is a professor (his title is practitioner-in-residence) at the University of New Haven in West Haven, Connecticut, and a labor lawyer. He practiced law in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1977 to 2008, and now practices in Connecticut. He is an active member of the Connecticut Bar and a retired member of the Massachusetts Bar. He received a B.A. in economics from George Washington University in 1974 and a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1977. He has taught legal ethics at Western New England University School of Law and business ethics and human resource management at U. of New Haven. He lives in the New Haven area with his wife. This book is based on his thirty-five years of experience practicing and teaching law and ethics.