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EEOC Posters

September 26th, 2006 Posted by Mark

I’ve gotten a lot of requests lately to go over a topic that we only considered not too long ago. That topic is EEOC Posters. I guess people feel that the EEOC Posters are an important enough topic to cover twice, maybe even three or ten times. My question is whether or not this will take away from their understanding of the importance of the other federal posters. But who I am to judge? If my loyal readers want to hear more about the EEOC Posters, I will deliver.

Plus, I can do both—cover the EEOC Posters and talk about the other federal posters. For instance, we can quickly go over here the other five federal posters that employers, at least most of them, most post in their workplaces from Alabama to Alaska, Wyoming to Washington, D.C.

Besides the EEOC Posters, these other federal posters include the OSHA poster for work site safety and employee health, the lie detector, or polygraph, protection poster, the minimum wage posting, the Family and Medical Leave act posting, and the USERRA posting for employees who are called up to serve active duty in the armed forces.

As for the EEOC Posters, it covers all of the rights and requirements that employers and employees have when dealing with issues such as race, religion, skin color, nationality, and disability. As the EEOC Posters explain, there are several federal laws on the books that prohibit different forms of discrimination based on those personal qualities mentioned above, and then some.

Discrimination doesn’t just have to include skin color or sex or national origin, it can also include even the age of the employee or whether or not they’re in the armed forces. And discrimination, as the EEOC Posters explain, doesn’t just involve hiring and firing people, but could also involve training, promotions, and conduct on an everyday basis toward employees.