Late Night Chapter 3 Summary Thinking

        In chapter 3, Legal Issues In Employee Selection, the correct procedures are talked about for how to legally hire and retain an employee. It gives sufficient case law that can be referenced to illustrate each point. It explains what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is, as well as a description of the legal process in relation to employment law. It explains how a person can tell whether a case would have merit, based on a discriminatory act, or not. This chapter also explains harassment, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Affirmative Action, Privacy Issues, Veterans Readjustment Act, pregnancy issues, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act. It also explains what the 4/5ths rule is in adverse impact and how organizations are helping liable for sexual harassment charges. This chapter also gives a brief description of the fourth, fifth, and fourteenth amendments; as well as definitions for protected classes and what the protected classes are.

        I, personally, have had experience filing a sexual harassment charge against a boss for stating an unwelcomed gesture. I went o my union and filed a grievance and wrote letters to my union president when nothing was done and to the EEOC when nothing was done, but still, nothing was done. Since that boss was being sent to another building for supervisory training it was swept under the rug and when he got back, he was supposed to not be my boss but for some ‘postal/government’ reason, he still was running my section. I sucked it up and dealt with it and we both did not speak to each other thankfully, and because time is a wonderful thing, I never see him now. It just was another way that the postal service/government proved that it doesn’t matter what happens to the general worker as it just matters what their production output numbers look like for federal funding. When you make the laws you can adhere to and dismiss whatever laws you want to for ‘the bigger picture’. So personally I have no faith in any situation I cant clarify and take care of myself. I have also had wonderful issues with the post office in terms of pregnancy. When I got pregnant and eventually had to be put on sitting restrictions the post office says ‘please leave’. Unless you are hurt at work they claim they do not have to make sitting positions for anyone. My facility is a standing facility and unless the incident happened on postal property ‘pregnancy is not their problem’ and I couldn’t perform the duties necessary for my job so I was to go home until my doctor said I could come back. Which meant that before my baby was even born I was burning my FMLA time so after he was born I had less time to be at home with him. But hey, having a baby isn’t the concern of the federal government, only getting that mail to everyone who needs it so badly is, again ‘the bigger picture’. I know I sound cynical crass and very jaded and I am intending it to be that way. While I understand to some degree how a company must work in order to appease everyone, so that the bigger picture of billions of people getting medication or legal documents is necessary, what I don’t understand and never will is the governments’ lack of tack. It filters in all these ex-military hardheads who think women are nothing but moms and nurses and feel they get justified in this thought if one gets pregnant. The unions aren't what they were back in my parent's day either because they make deals with management to cushion their own asses instead of the greater good of the building but we have a no-strike clause that prohibits us from ever standing up like our for-fathers once did. So I digress because while I make such great money, I don’t have enough to pay an attorney to fight an organization such as the post office.

        I do not have a critical analysis of this chapter. It’s a cut and dry chapter about laws.