Equal employment opportunity
Equal employment opportunity is equal opportunity in employment. Examples of legislation to foster it or to protect it from eroding include the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which was established by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to assist in the protection of United States employees from discrimination. The law was the first federal law designed to protect most US employees from employment discrimination based upon that employee's (or applicant's) race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Public Law 88-352, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 253, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 2000e et. seq.). Employment discrimination entails areas such as firing, hiring, promotions, transfer or wage practices and it is also illegal to discriminate in advertising, referral of job applicants, or classification. The Title is pertinent in companies affecting commerce that have fifteen or more employees. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is section 705 of the title.
Mary Dyckman
After receiving election to CLNJ's executive board in 1938, Dyckman chaired an inter-organizational committee to examine concerns with existing child labor laws. The work of this committee led to the passage of New Jersey's Child Labor Act of 1940. This law raised the minimum working age for children to 12 and reduced the number of hours that age-eligible children could work. Additionally, the law prohibited children under age 16 from working during school hours. Dyckman's later recommendations to Governor Walter Edge on protections for migrant workers directly led to the passage of New Jersey's Migrant Law of 1945. This law was the first of its kind in the U.S.