Affirmative Action in the Workplace

Affirmative Action in the Workplace

Affirmative Action in the workplace are practices that are intended to promote equal opportunity for members of discriminated to disadvantaged classes people are referred to as affirmative action. This is most often associated with promoting opportunities for candidates of color and women, affirmative action may assist any disadvantaged group. An example of this would be affirmative action programs that benefit people with disabilities or military veterans.

Affirmative action is most common in employment, government contracts, education, and business. In the employment field, the federal, state, or local government might implement affirmative action measures, either when the government acts as an employer or when the government contracts with or provides grants to, private businesses. Private employers may also adopt their own affirmative action programs.

Affirmative action is for disadvantaged groups of people and to have the ability to have an equal opportunity to contend for jobs and promotions (such as posting jobs in areas with high numbers of minority job seekers, developing outreach efforts to find qualified female candidates, and supporting training programs for candidates or employees in protected categories) to giving the disadvantaged classes an edge in employment decisions by taking gender, race, or another protected characteristic into account as a factor in the selection process.